Evidence of Frontier Commerce Along the Mississippi River in Eastern Missouri and Western Illinois

Summary

This is an abstract from the "From Iliniwek to Ste Genevieve: Early Commerce along the Mississippi" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Despite being in conflict with England during the late 1700s and early 1800s, French/Spainish Colonial site and early American sites reflect the improtance of English goods on the local economies. But these goods were not accepted wholesale, but altered to fit life on the frontier. 

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2019   •
• From Iliniwek to Ste Genevieve: Early Commerce along the Mississippi

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PaperId(s): 243