Mail in Ten Days - impossible!! part one
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Through enemy attacks, blizzards, and mud young men on horseback delivered the U.S. mail for eighteen months.
click here to play audio“Mr. Russell, you’re dangerous! You risk thousands of dollars and schedule the probable death of young men. Your project is trapped in arguments between the North and South over slavery. And, your plan for getting U.S. mail rapidly across the U.S.—impossible!
“By next year, 1861, the United States will probably be ripped…
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