The Investment Frontier: New York Businessmen and the Eco...
Haeger, John Denis![The Investment Frontier: New York Businessmen and the Economic Development of the Old Northwest](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/289/28948811/CHSBZCOP0328948811.jpg)
The American West did not grow in isolation from the East. On the contrary, New York financiers and other eastern entrepreneurs were crucial to America's western economic development, providing the necessary capital and expertise to transform the West into a productive part of the nation's economy.This thesis is powerfully demonstrated by John Denis Haeger in this study concerning the "Old Northwest" (the present-day states of Ohio, Michigan, ...