. The story of corn and the westward migration. the foothills ofthe Rocky Mountains; the tributaries of the Ohiowere opened, and steamers were soon puflfing andblowing in the very heart of the grain country. By 1815 Cincinnati had become a good dealof a trade center. Corn, wheat, flour, pork, bacon,lard, and whisky, all products of the grain of theNorthwest, were going down the Mississippi toNew Orleans and beyond. St. Louis had estab-lished communication with Louisville, Cincinnati,and New Orleans. The rapid development ofsteamboat traffic was destroying the wagon tradebetween Philadelphia an
. The story of corn and the westward migration. the foothills ofthe Rocky Mountains; the tributaries of the Ohiowere opened, and steamers were soon puflfing andblowing in the very heart of the grain country. By 1815 Cincinnati had become a good dealof a trade center. Corn, wheat, flour, pork, bacon,lard, and whisky, all products of the grain of theNorthwest, were going down the Mississippi toNew Orleans and beyond. St. Louis had estab-lished communication with Louisville, Cincinnati,and New Orleans. The rapid development ofsteamboat traffic was destroying the wagon tradebetween Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and drawingtogether the West and the South. It was the period from 1820 to 1850 that witnessed Connecting the Corn Country with the World 165 the great development of steamboat traffic of theMississippi Valley. Coal was easily obtained forfuel, as there was an abundance of it in the 1826, Cincinnati had become the chief export-ing city and the manufacturing center of the many as thirty steamers might be seen any. Photograph by E. J. Hall A Mississippi River steamer. The steamboat hound together thecorn country and the cotton country, making of the Missis-sippi Valley an empire complete within itself day at the docks of this metropolis of the , also, became a great exporting center, con-trolling as it did the products of central Tennesseeand Kentucky that came by way of the CumberlandRiver. In addition to steamboats, thousands ofrafts, boats, and barges floated down the northerntributaries of the Mississippi. Coming together atthe mouth of the Ohio, numbers of these were lashed 166 The Story of Corn together and proceeded down the Mississippi toNew Orleans. After disposing of the products theraftsmen worked their way back home, sometimesas deck hands on the steamers that carried themerchandise of the world to the great grain countryof the Northwest. In 1824 three hundred thousandbarrels of flour went down the Mississippi, and onthe
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