The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin
A Study of the Trading Post as an Institution by Frederick Jackson Turner, an early twentieth century American historian, best known for “The Significance of the Frontier in American History”. From the introduction: The trading post is an old and influential institution. Established in the midst of an undeveloped society by a more advanced people, it is a center not only of new economic influences, but also of all the transforming forces that accompany the intercourse of a higher with a lower civilization. The Phoenicians developed the institution into a great historic agency.
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