The Ohio River Trade, 1788-1830

1788-1830
Hazel Yearsley Shaw, A.B., 1907
THESIS
SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE
DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS
HISTORY
IN THE
GRADUATE SCHOOL
OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
1908
With the opening of the great West, the Ohio River became the main route of immigration and commerce, and it is in a careful study of the various forms of craft which floated upon La Belle Riviere that we catch a glimpse of the rapid and almost marvelous economic development of the Ohio Valley.