Table of Contents

Preliminary Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Across the Mountains
1. Claiming Space
2. Planting a Place
Part II: The Western Country
3. Creating a Subregional Hub
4. Connecting East and West
5. The Dimensions of Riverine Economy
6. The Western Country
Part III: The Buckeye State
7. Ohio's Economy Transformed
8. A New Sense of Place
Conclusion
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

Merchants, traders, and entrepreneurs in the antebellum Ohio River Valley.

About the Author

Kim M. Gruenwald is Assistant Professor of History at Kent State University.

Reviews

"Gruenwald's book will make the same contribution to historical knowledge of the Ohio Valley as Lewis Atherton's Frontier Merchant did for our understanding of the mercantile Midwest in the mid-nineteenth century... a finely crafted narrative that lets the reader understand that the Ohio River always served more as an artery, that is, a river of commerce, than a dividing line or boundary." -R. Douglas Hurt, author of The Ohio Frontier