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Arthur H. Clark Company, Cleveland, OH. 1926. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; light wear to fabric at tail. No DJ. Green cloth boards and spine with gilt lettering on the spine. Gilt textblock top. Frontispiece illustration with tissue guard. Deckled fore edge and bottom edge. 7 illustrations present in text, one of which is a colored map. 361 pp tall 8vo. In the development of the American West, no two decades were so full of romance and change as the years from the California gold rush of 1849 to the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869. In the span of two decades, the West was conquered and the secession movement rose and fell. From slow ox-team and prairie schooner to the dashing Pony Express, the overland mail service mirrored these monumental strides. Originally published in 1926, The Overland Mail was the first scholarly work to examine the impact of the postal service on the expansion of the West as the service evolved from a private endeavor to a government-contracted business. The author details how the mail service tied West to East, influenced politics and economics, promoted use of the overland trails, aided in settlement, and helped usher in the railroads. A clean very presentable copy. No International Shipping. Priority mailing will require additional postage.
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