Showing Yankee Merchants and the Making of the Urban West: The Rise and Fall of Antebellum St. Louis by Jeffrey S. Adler
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In 1850 St. Louis was the commercial capital of the West. By 1860, however, Chicago had supplanted St. Louis and became the great metropolis of the region. This book explains the rapid ascent and the abrupt collapse of the Missouri city. It devotes p