Old Town Mercantile

Hey there folks, sayon'tee appears on a ghostrider's here. Mercantiles in the old west. Let's look into it. The word mercantile comes from the Italian mercante, we know it today as a general store. T Creating much every town had at least one, and it was a good business. Many people flocking out west left a lot be The merchant, or store owner, could be a fair man depending on the town's economy. In gold strike towns Of course, there's always those that took advantage. Let'see a stove, 750, still a 420 flower, 850, 975, 2 hours. Add that up with your mom. That comes to $47 even. There were few price tags, if any, on items, and almost everyt Bartering was encouraged and helpful to both the customer and the merchant. If the mercantile needed eggs, and you brought them eggs, they could trade you for a pound of flour, or maybe give you credit. We do give credit to a few farmers that we've known for a long time, but only to a few. T You see, before trains became mainstream, goods from big manufacturers out east had a heck of a time get an item safely to the west with any consistency. When the steams So if you ordered somet And hopefully it was intact. Sounds broken. Most I bet it was somet T If you could make household items or provide fresh or preserved foods, there was quite a business opportunity. In the movie Shane, w Granted, it appears to be a really small town. However, a smart business owner with some capital could in fact own a couple of businesses, The Lincoln County War was a bitter feud between two wealthy store owners, John Tunstall, friend of Billy the Kid, and James Dolan. It was kind of a, t Now is it big enough? Well, there was the whole, oh you see you're not Catholic. Somet Whatever. It was bad. Today the Tunstall store still stands and is open tourists and history seekers a In fact, many mercantiles can still be found across America. I guess you could say that the modern equivalent would be Costco. However, a whole frontier town could fit one of those. Hey, Santi. What are you doing in my antique catalog? We're in Ivory Grips for my colt. Oh, well, So, so right there? Look, Jerry, t I'm gonna take advantage of it. So how much do they cost? $2. 39. Oh, but what's the $3. All right, what's the s $0. 10. $0. 10. Well, folks, be sure to Boy, I have $0. 27. That's a gonga.