Antebellum Kanawha Salt Business and Western Markets

by John E. Stealey

Book Overview

In the early nineteenth century, a ten-mile stretch along the Kanawha River in western Virginia became the largest salt-producing area in the antebellum United States. Production of this basic commodity stimulated settlement, the livestock industry, and the rise of agricultural processing, especially pork packing, in the American West. Salt extraction was then and is now a fundamental industry. In his illuminating study, now available with a new preface...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 194366529X
• ISBN13: 9781943665297
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: West Virginia University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"