TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blevins,Cameron
TI  - Paper trails: the US Post and the making of the American West 
T2  - Oxford scholarship online
SN  - 9780197550069 (ebook) :
AV  - HE6376.A1 W476 2021
U1  - 383.497809034 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Postal service
KW  - West (U.S.)
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - United States
KW  - Territorial expansion
N1  - Also issued in print: 2021; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - 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
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ER  -