[' ', '-', '16', '-', 'area', 'produced', 'one-third', 'of', 'the', 'nations', 'crop', 'and', 'from', 'the', "1840's", 'to', 'the', 'civil', 'war', '4', 'they', 'produced', 'about', 'half', 'the', 'total', 'crop.', 'The', 'westward', 'trek', 'of', 'the', 'Americans', 'was', 'always', 'accompanied', 'by', 'tobacco,', 'but', 'they', 'found', 'that', 'its', 'use', 'had', 'preceded', 'them.', 'Except', 'for', 'the', 'plains', 'indians,', 'most', 'indian', 'tribes', 'used', 'tobacco,', 'either', 'Rustica', 'or', 'one', 'of', 'the', 'other', 'harsh', 'species,', 'but', 'once', 'exposed', 'to', 'N.', 'Tabacum,', 'they', 'immediately', 'adopted', 'it.', 'The', 'plains', 'indians', 'obtatned', 'their', 'tobacco', 'by', 'trade', 'with', 'the', 'neighboring', 'tribes,', 'but', 'tobacco', 'trade', 'also', 'played', 'a', 'role', 'in', 'white', "man's", 'transactions', 'with', 'the', 'indians.', 'In', 'the', 'indian', 'tribes,', 'it', 'was', 'the', "woman's", 'duty', 'to', 'look', 'after', 'the', 'food', 'crops,', 'but', 'without', 'exception', 'tobacco,', 'of', 'whatever', 'kind,', 'was', 'looked', 'after', 'by', 'the', 'men.', 'When', 'American', 'traders', 'reached', 'Santa', 'Fe', 'in', '1820,', 'they', 'were', 'surprised', 'to', 'find', 'the', 'senoras', 'and', 'senoritas', 'using|“seegaritos,"', 'and', 'they', 'observed,', '"all', 'females', 'of', 'the', '(', 'capital,', 'regardless', 'of', 'age', 'or', 'condition', 'in', 'society', 'are', 'subject', 'to', 'their', 'use."', 'Americans', 'arriving', 'in', 'California', 'found', 'the', 'cigar', 'in', 'common', 'use.', 'The', 'customs', 'of', 'tobacco', 'use', 'in', 'these', 'areas', 'probably', 'derived', 'from', 'the', 'local', 'indians', 'but', 'was', 'colored', 'by', 'the', 'Spanish-Mexican', 'choice', 'of', 'the', 'cigar', 'as', 'their', 'form', 'of', 'use.', 'A', 'transition', 'was', 'taking', 'place', 'in', 'the', 'tobacco', 'area', 'during', 'this', 'period.', 'The', 'U.', 'S.', 'tobacco', 'industry', 'was', 'becoming', 'more', 'self', 'sufficient', 'and', 'changing', 'from', 'a', 'supplier', 'of', 'raw', 'material', 'to', 'a', 'manufacturer', 'for', 'home', '{U.', 'S.)', 'consumption.', 'In', '1830,', 'twenty', 'percent', 'of', 'the', 'crop', 'was', 'fed', 'to', 'home', 'factories', 'and', 'by', '1860', 'fifty', 'percent', 'was', 'used', 'at', 'home.', '‘The', 'transition', 'took', 'place,', 'appropriately', 'enough,', 'in', 'Virginta', 'where', 'Richmond,', 'Danville,', 'Lynchburg,', 'and', 'Petersburg', 'became', 'the', 'manufacturing', 'centers.', 'The', 'product--', 'plug', 'tobacco--', 'was', 'the', 'first', 'tobacco', 'product', 'that', 'was', 'entirely', 'American', 'not', 'an', 'imitation', 'of', 'some', 'foreign', 'mode,', '52003', '6849', ' ']