The Woolen Industry of the Midwest - Paperback

by Norman L. Crockett (Author)

Through the study of a regional industry, the book illustrates the impact of an expanding national market on a previously isolated market, offering new insights into a pioneer industry in the West and into the business methods and procedures of the time. The book discusses the growth of a myriad of small processing and manufacturing plants which drew raw materials from, and geared production and sales to that local economy, enjoying as they did, protection from eastern competitors who were saddl

Author Biography

Norman L. Crockett is an associate professor of history at the University of Oklahoma.