Author: J. A. Blake
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-12-14
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 9780332757292
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Colorado Business Directory and Annual Register for 1877: Containing a Classified List of All the Business and Professional Men, Officers, Societies, Schools, Churches, Etc., In All the Cities and Towns of Colorado, Together With Post Office, Express and Telegraph, Railroad and Stage Officers About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: T. Lindsay Baker
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1985-01-01
Total Pages: 542
ISBN-13: 9780806119014
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Traces the history of the use of windmills in the United States and surveys the various types of American windmills
Author: Cameron Blevins
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-03-04
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0190053690
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A groundbreaking history of how the US Post made the nineteenth-century American West. 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. Between the 1860s and the early 1900s, the western United States underwent a truly dramatic reorganization of people, land, capital, and resources. It had taken Anglo-Americans the better part of two hundred years to occupy the eastern half of the continent, yet they occupied the West within a single generation. As millions of settlers moved into the region, they relied on letters and newspapers, magazines and pamphlets, petitions and money orders to stay connected to the wider world. Paper Trails maps the spread of the US Post using a dataset of more than 100,000 post offices, revealing a new picture of the federal government in the West. The western postal network bore little resemblance to the civil service bureaucracies typically associated with government institutions. Instead, the US Post grafted public mail service onto private businesses, contracting with stagecoach companies to carry the mail and paying local merchants to distribute letters from their stores. These arrangements allowed the US Post to rapidly spin out a vast and ephemeral web of postal infrastructure to thousands of distant places. The postal network's sprawling geography and localized operations forces a reconsideration of the American state, its history, and the ways in which it exercised power.
Author: New York State Library
Publisher:
Published: 1885
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: New York State Library
Publisher:
Published: 1879
Total Pages: 228
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From 1889 to 1918 the reports consist of the Report of the director and appendixes, which from 1893 include various bulletins issued by the library (Additions; Bibliography; History; Legislation; Library school; Public libraries) These, including the Report of the director, were each issued also separately.
Author: New York (State). Legislature. Senate
Publisher:
Published: 1879
Total Pages: 1210
ISBN-13:
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