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The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin by Frederick Jackson Turner

The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin

Author
Frederick Jackson Turner
Categories
Fur trade, Indians of North America, Trading posts
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Excerpt

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 Phœnicians developed the institution into a great historic agency. Closely associated with piracy at first, their commerce gradually freed itself from this and spread throughout the Mediterranean lands. A passage in the Odyssey (Book XV.) enables us to trace the genesis of the Phœnician trading post:


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