Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications

Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents

Publisher:

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 1250

ISBN-13:

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February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index

Soil Survey
Soil Survey

Author: United States. Soil Conservation Service

Publisher:

Published: 1938

Total Pages: 660

ISBN-13:

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Marketing the Frontier in the Northwest Territory
Marketing the Frontier in the Northwest Territory

Author: Robert E. Mitchell

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2020-05-18

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1476680671

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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.