The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin, by Frederick Jackson Turner This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin Author: Frederick Jackson Turner Release Date: February 21, 2007 [EBook #20643] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK INDIAN TRADE IN WISCONSIN *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Taavi Kalju and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY STUDIES IN HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE HERBERT B. ADAMS, Editor History is past Politics and Politics present History.—Freeman NINTH SERIES XI-XII The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin A Study of the Trading Post as an Institution BY FREDERICK J. TURNER, PH.D. Professor of History, University of Wisconsin BALTIMORE THE JOHNS HOPKINS PRESS PUBLISHED MONTHLY November and December, 1891 COPYRIGHT, 1891, BY N. MURRAY. ISAAC FRIEDENWALD CO., PRINTERS, BALTIMORE. TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE. I. INTRODUCTION 7 II. PRIMITIVE INTER-TRIBAL TRADE 10 PLACE OF THE INDIAN TRADE IN THE SETTLEMENT OF III. 11 AMERICA 1. Early Trade along the Atlantic Coast 11 2. In New England 12 3.