Klappentext: Employment. . .Inflation. . .Consumer Spending. Each month, financial markets react to these and other important figures. The data, tables, charts, and graphs in this authoritative book explain how each indicator is determined, and how readers can effectively use this information....

Tenants of the log cabin.--The role of the land speculator in western development.--Southern investments in northern lands before the Civil War.--Land policy and tenancy in the prairie counties of Indiana.--Land policy and tenancy in the prairie states.--Hoosier cattle kings.--Cattle kings in...