(MISSOURI) General store account books of McKee McLane of C

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(MISSOURI.) General store account books of McKee & McLane of Cape Girardeau. Account journal: 331 manuscript pages, folio, 1/2 calf, worn and partly disbound, foxed, 4 March 1836 to 7 January 1837 * Ledger: 99-315, 199 manuscript pages, folio, full calf, first 98 pages used as a clippings scrapbook, numerous leaves excised, 1836-1843 * Index to ledger, [24] manuscript pages, narrow folio, stitched, moderate wear. Cape Girardeau, MO, 1836-43

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These volumes track sales at a general store in the riverboat boomtown of Cape Girardeau, MO. The owners were apparently Euen Y. McKee (1812-1849) and Joseph Rankin McLane (1799-1867) until 1839, when McKee became the sole proprietor--the later part of the ledger starts fresh with new accounts at this date. Among the items sold at this busy shop are saddles, bridles, and martingales, coon, fox, sheep, and deer skins, feathers, flasks, whiskey, cider, palm hats, tumblers, laudanum, tobacco, coffee, shoes, fabric, produce, chickens, nails, buckets, and knives. Numerous customers are noted as "black."