The book was reprinted with permission of the John Hopkins Press by The Public Library of Allen County and Fort Wayne, Indiana. From the mid-seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries, the Wabash Trade Route in the Old Northwest comprised a chain of natural waterways from Lake Erie to the Mississippi River. Later, the Wabash and Erie Canal formed an important link in the route. An Intoduction to the Prehistory of Indiana was written by James H. Kellar of the Indiana Historical Society. A Brown County History was written by Ray Mathis in 1936 for his master's Degree in 1936 and was typed in the Autumn of 1966 by Glenn Brown.
Copies are for sale in Nashville, Indiana.
The Book Loft has it. This image is from Brown County, Indiana History and Families from 1836 to 1990, page 24. Brown County was made of land then a part of neighboring Bartholomew and Monroe Counties. The Sassafras was tied into small bundles and shipped East. Some was peddled in cities as far as Richmond, Indiana.