Marketing the Frontier in the Northwest Territory

Land Sales, Soils and the Settling of the Great Lakes Region in the 19th Century

Robert E Mitchell author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:McFarland & Co Inc

Published:18th May '20

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Combining narrative history with data-rich social and economic analysis, this new institutional economics study examines the failure of frontier farms in the antebellum Northwest Territory, where legislatively-created imperfect markets and poor surveying resulted in massive investment losses for both individual farmers and the national economy. The history of farming and spatial settlement patterns in the Great Lakes region is described, with specific focus on the State of Michigan viewed through a case study of Midland County. Inter and intra-state differences in soil endowments, public and private promoters of site-specific investment opportunities, time trends in settled populations and the experiences of individual investors are covered in detail.

ISBN: 9781476680675

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm

Weight: 336g

252 pages