Yankee Merchants and the Making of the Urban West The Rise and Fall of Antebellum St. Louis

During the mid-1850s powerful political and cultural forces altered the sources of urban growth in the American West. This book demonstrates that the sectional crisis abruptly transformed St. Louis's role in the national economy, redirecting the flow of capital and migrants away from St. Louis and toward a smaller western city - Chicago.Adler, Jeffrey S. is the author of 'Yankee Merchants and the Making of the Urban West The Rise and Fall of Antebellum St. Louis', published 1991 under ISBN 9780521412841 and ISBN 0521412846.