Article describes the process of establishing trade and general stores on the Indian Territory frontier, both by white settlers and Cherokees establishing themselves in their new lands. Duncan M. Aldrich discusses the history of business and entrepreneurship in Indian Territory.
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Article describes the process of establishing trade and general stores on the Indian Territory frontier, both by white settlers and Cherokees establishing themselves in their new lands. Duncan M. Aldrich discusses the history of business and entrepreneurship in Indian Territory.
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The Chronicles of Oklahoma
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Aldrich, Duncan M.General Stores, Retail Merchants, and Assimilation: Retail Trade in the Cherokee Nation, 1838-1890,
article,
Spring 1979;
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.