The Mercantile

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A primarily visual tour of a general store, or mercantile store. Settlers moving westward would have gone to stores similar to this one during the late 1800s.

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Galleries

Homestead National Monument, Historical Narratives

Keywords

General Store, Goods, Homestead Act, Homestead National Monument, Mercantile, Nebraska, The People's Store, Trade

Credit

Courtesy of the National Park Service. For a large collection of audio and video podcast episodes on many classroom topics, visit the National Park Service on iTunes U.

Movie Number

3206