I.  Intra-coastal shipping
 Characteristics of the Atlantic Coast
 Passenger traffic
 Trade goods
  --ice
  --manufactured goods

II.  Differential Distribution of Trade Goods
 Coastal Cites and their hinterlands
 Wharf points/fall line towns on rivers
 Trade and the interior rivers
  --Mississippi
  --Missouri (Bertram contents)
  --Ohio
  --Tennessee/Cumberland

III.  Overland Distribution of Goods
 Initially less important than river trade
 Pack trains/fur trade
 Wagon trains
  --Moravian trains to Charleston
  --Merchant wagon trains from Philadelphia to Knoxville

IV.  Uneven Material Culture Distribution
 Imported, factory, luxury goods
 "Homespun" in the backcountry
 Household inventories
  --range of goods in New England/Charleston
  --range of goods in country cabins/houses

V.  Backcountry lines of distribution and convergence
 Swedes, Germans, Scotch-Irish
 Bland Letter (1650)
 Lutherans in Savannah
 Moravians in North Carolina/Pennsylvania
 
VI.  Religious and Demographic Diversity
 Woodmason in Carolina
 Talbot/Keith survey
 The Three Societies

VII.  The Quilt Lie
 Association of quilts with American self-reliance
 Pioneer frugality
 Cotton vs. Homespun
 Quilts reflect settled society vs. the backcountry
  surplus (waste) vs. scarcity
 Backcountry homespun
  neither fabric nor social structure for quilting
 Distribution of Goods was uneven