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The National Postal Museum provides an intimate look at how America's postal service expanded to meet the needs of westward-moving settlers during the nineteenth century. Content includes a selection of letters written at the time, a biography of Brown and Butterfield focusing on their stage line operations, and a look at the stagecoaches and mud wagons used to transport the mail.
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Classroom Considerations
- Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)