lower countries

Fur Trade, Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the trading region to the south and west of the Great Lakes in the headwaters of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers.

See: Upper Country(def. 1)

Quotations

1761

Michilimackinac is the place of deposit, and point of departure between the upper countries and the lower.