F.J. Turner's First Work

TURNER, FREDERICK J. The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin. A Study in the Trading Post as an Institution. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, Nov. & Dec. 1891. 1st ed. 8vo. 94 pp., plus ads & half-title. Orig. printed wraps, chipped & detached. Text fine. $250.00

Turner was born in Wisconsin and studied as an undergraduate at the University under Prof. William Francis Allen. There he undertook work on the manuscripts of Lyman C. Draper at the State Historical Society. Out of these initial studies came the material for his 1890 doctoral thesis at Johns Hopkins, here first published.