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The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin
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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 |
| III. | PLACE OF THE INDIAN TRADE IN THE SETTLEMENT OF AMERICA | 11 |
| 1. Early Trade along the Atlantic Coast | 11 | |
| 2. In New England | 12 | |
| 3. In the Middle Region | 18 | |
| 4. In the South | 16 | |
| 5. In the Far West | 18 | |
| IV. | THE RIVER AND LAKE SYSTEMS OF THE NORTHWEST | 19 |
| V. | WISCONSIN INDIANS | 22 |
| VI. | PERIODS OF THE WISCONSIN INDIAN TRADE | 25 |
| VII. | FRENCH EXPLORATION IN WISCONSIN | 26 |
| VIII. | FRENCH POSTS IN WISCONSIN | 33 |
| IX. | THE FOX WARS | 34 |
| X. | FRENCH SETTLEMENT IN WISCONSIN | 38 |
| XI. | THE TRADERS' STRUGGLE TO RETAIN THEIR TRADE | 40 |
| XII. | THE ENGLISH AND THE NORTHWEST. INFLUENCE OF THE INDIAN TRADE ON DIPLOMACY | 42 |
| XIII. | THE NORTHWEST COMPANY | 51 |
| XIV. | AMERICAN INFLUENCES | 51 |
| XV. | GOVERNMENT TRADING HOUSES | 58 |
| XVI. | WISCONSIN TRADE IN 1820 | 61 |
| XVII. | EFFECTS OF THE TRADING POST | 67 |
THE CHARACTER AND INFLUENCE OF THE INDIAN TRADE IN WISCONSIN.
INTRODUCTION.[1]
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:
"Thither came the