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markets were established where fresh meat could 

 be had twice a week. 



Houses and lots were advertised for sale, and one 

 result of the method of allowing the branded stock 

 to range at large in the woods was that there were 

 numerous advertisements for strayed horses, and 

 even cattle, with descriptions of the brands and ear- 

 marks. The people were already beginning to pay 

 attention to the breeding of their horses, and fine 

 stallions with pedigrees were advertised, though 

 some of the advertisements show a certain indiffer- 

 ence to purity of strain, one stallion being quoted 

 as of "mixed fox-hunting and dray" breed. Rather 

 curiously the Chickasaw horses were continually 

 mentioned as of special merit, together with those of 

 imported stock. Attention was paid both to pacers 

 and trotters. 



The lottery was still a recognized method of rais- 

 ing money for every purpose, including the advance- 

 ment of education and religion. One of the adver- 

 tisements gives as one of the prizes a negro, valued 

 at one hundred and thirty pounds, a horse at ten 

 pounds, and five hundred acres of fine land without 

 improvements at twelve hundred pounds. 



Journeying to the long-settled districts of the 

 East, persons went as they wished, in their own 

 wagons or on their own horses ; but to go from East 

 Tennessee either to Kentucky, or to the Cumberland 

 district, or to New Orleans, was a serious matter be- 

 cause of the Indians. The Territorial authorities 

 provided annually an escort for immigrants from 



