Excerpt from History of Union County The men wore long hunting shirts and moccasins and leather or buckskin breeches and the women linsey dresses and petticoats and home-made shoes. Ordinarily the people went barefoot. Fort Massac was the nearest trading post where supplies could be obtained. These came from New Orleans or Pennsylvania, trans ported on a barge tied with ropes and pulled up the river by men walking along the-river banks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.