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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
Book Description
Snow's Pathfinder Railway Guide
Author: Neither Snow Nor Rain
Author: Devin LeonardPublisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802189970
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
“[The] book makes you care what happens to its main protagonist, the U.S. Postal Service itself. And, as such, it leaves you at the end in suspense.” —USA Today Founded by Benjamin Franklin, the United States Postal Service was the information network that bound far-flung Americans together, and yet, it is slowly vanishing. Critics say it is slow and archaic. Mail volume is down. The workforce is shrinking. Post offices are closing. In Neither Snow Nor Rain, journalist Devin Leonard tackles the fascinating, centuries-long history of the USPS, from the first letter carriers through Franklin’s days, when postmasters worked out of their homes and post roads cut new paths through the wilderness. Under Andrew Jackson, the post office was molded into a vast patronage machine, and by the 1870s, over seventy percent of federal employees were postal workers. As the country boomed, USPS aggressively developed new technology, from mobile post offices on railroads and airmail service to mechanical sorting machines and optical character readers. Neither Snow Nor Rain is a rich, multifaceted history, full of remarkable characters, from the stamp-collecting FDR, to the revolutionaries who challenged USPS’s monopoly on mail, to the renegade union members who brought the system—and the country—to a halt in the 1970s. “Delectably readable . . . Leonard’s account offers surprises on almost every other page . . . [and] delivers both the triumphs and travails with clarity, wit and heart.” —Chicago Tribune
The Boston Directory
Author: Boston Directory
Author: The Massachusetts Register and United States Calendar for the Year of Our Lord ...
Author: The Pathfinder
Author: Nancy Marguerite AndersonPublisher: Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN: 1927051029
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Fifteen years before the 1858 Fraser River gold rush, a Hudson’s Bay Company clerk named Alexander Caulfield Anderson threaded his way through mountain passes and down rapids-filled rivers in search of a safe all-British route through the mountains that separated the HBC fort at Kamloops from Fort Langley on the Pacific coast. Eventually, Anderson discovered four routes, succeeding where Alexander Mackenzie and Simon Fraser before him had failed. Without his explorations, historian Derek Pethick once wrote, British Columbia may never have come into being or become a part of the Dominion of Canada. For Anderson, the cross-country expeditions he undertook were welcome antidotes to a fur-trade life that wasn’t quite what he’d expected it to be. By the time he joined, in 1831, it was in fact a tightly controlled business that was very different from the adventurous trade that had inspired him. But though he may not have had his dream life, his spirit of adventure kept him going. As explorer, map-maker, artist and writer, he created a wealth of information to guide those of his time and far beyond, and his work—first in the fur trade, then in the communities in which he lived, and finally as Fisheries Inspector and Indian Reserve Commissioner for British Columbia—was always aimed at improving the future of the people he lived among.
Catalog of Broadsides in the Rare Book Division
Author: Library of Congress. Rare Book DivisionPublisher: Macmillan Reference USA
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
The Directory of the City of Boston
Author: Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1970
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on AppropriationsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1764
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Appropriations
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on AppropriationsPublisher:
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Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 792
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