Paper trails : the US Post and the making of the American West /
Blevins, Cameron,
Paper trails : the US Post and the making of the American West / Cameron Blevins. - 1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrations (black and white). - Oxford scholarship online . - Oxford scholarship online. .
Also issued in print: 2021.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
There were five times as many post offices in the United States in 1899 than there are McDonald's restaurants today. During an era of supposedly limited federal government, the United States operated the most expansive national postal system in the world. In this cutting-edge interpretation of the late nineteenth-century United States, Cameron Blevins argues that the US Post wove together two of the era's defining projects: western expansion and the growth of state power.
Specialized.
9780197550069 (ebook) : No price
Postal service--History--West (U.S.)--19th century.
United States--Territorial expansion.
West (U.S.)--History.
HE6376.A1 / W476 2021
383.497809034
Paper trails : the US Post and the making of the American West / Cameron Blevins. - 1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrations (black and white). - Oxford scholarship online . - Oxford scholarship online. .
Also issued in print: 2021.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
There were five times as many post offices in the United States in 1899 than there are McDonald's restaurants today. During an era of supposedly limited federal government, the United States operated the most expansive national postal system in the world. In this cutting-edge interpretation of the late nineteenth-century United States, Cameron Blevins argues that the US Post wove together two of the era's defining projects: western expansion and the growth of state power.
Specialized.
9780197550069 (ebook) : No price
Postal service--History--West (U.S.)--19th century.
United States--Territorial expansion.
West (U.S.)--History.
HE6376.A1 / W476 2021
383.497809034