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Paper Trails - The US Post and the Making of the American West (Hardcover)
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Paper Trails - The US Post and the Making of the American West (Hardcover)
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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.
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