Fort Boonesborough Store
Cash was scarce on the frontier, so settlers would barter, or trade, with one another for the things they needed. In this example, in front of the Transylvania Store at Fort Boonesborough, a hunter pays the storekeeper for a new tomahawk by giving him an animal hide in trade.
People also bartered for services. So if the hunter’s tomahawk blade later broke, he might barter with the blacksmith to repair it for him.
The Transylvania Store is modeled after an 18th-century trading post. Most forts had such a store. The goods for sale or barter there would have included tomahawks, flint strikers, cloth, leather, knives, and kettles and baking pans.
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