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Capitalism on the Frontier: Billings and the Yellowstone Valley in the Nineteenth Century

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Focusing on the Clark's Fort Bottom, a twenty-five-mile stretch between present-day Park City and Billings, Montana, this pathbreaking study examines the successive stages of capitalist development in Billings and the Yellowstone Valley during the nineteenth century. From the subsistence and barter economy of the Native Americans, through the fur trade era and the settlers' introduction of a market economy, the introduction of industrial capitalism by the Northern Pacific Railroad, and the increasing influence of corporate ...

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Capitalism on the Frontier: Billings and the Yellowstone Valley in the Nineteenth Century 1993, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE

ISBN-13: 9780803247550

Hardcover