River of Enterprise: The Commercial Origins of Regional Identity in the Ohio Valley, 1790-1850 (Midwestern History & Culture Series)

by KimM.Gruenwald (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2002

  $30.73

  Explores the role the Ohio played in the lives of three generations of settlers from the river's headwaters at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to the falls at Louisville, Kentucky. This book studies the local, regional, and national connections created by merchants by tracing the business world of the Woodbridge family of Marietta, Ohio.