Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting a Report of the Progress Made in the Execution of the Act to Abolish the Indian Trading Establishments, & C.

Thomas L McKenney; United States. Office of Indian Affairs.; President James Monroe; United States. Department of the Treasury.

Washington : Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1825

[American Indian Affairs: the Factory System / Trading Posts / Commerce] Rebound in modern cloth. 36 pages.  No folding plates.  House of Representatives, 18th Congress, 2d session, 61. Between 1796 - 1822 the United States directed trade with Indian nations through federally authorized trading posts. This was in part to win Indians over with trade and out compete foreign governments and agents and thus facilitate westward US expansion.  The failure and abuses of the US factory system led to its abolishment in the 1820s.  Includes a modern printed copy of Royal Way, "United States Factory System for Trading with the Indians, 1796-1822," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Sep. 1919, vol. 6, No. 2. pp. 220-235.