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Hazel Yearsley Shaw
A careful early historian of the American frontier, remembered for a detailed study of commerce on the Ohio River. Her work follows the boats, goods, and growing river towns that helped shape the young United States.
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The Ohio River Trade, 1788-1830
by Hazel Yearsley Shaw
About the author
Little biographical information about Hazel Yearsley Shaw could be confirmed from reliable public sources during this search. What is clear is that she wrote The Ohio River Trade, 1788-1830, a scholarly study of trade and transportation along the Ohio River in the early republic.
The work was submitted as an M.A. thesis at the University of Illinois in 1908 and later circulated more widely through digital libraries. In it, Shaw examined the movement of goods, the kinds of boats used on the river, and the role of river traffic in the growth of western settlements.
Although Shaw herself remains somewhat obscure today, her surviving work still offers listeners a window into early American economic life and the importance of the Ohio River as a commercial highway.