Do you have any particular source for all that info on mid-19th century America? I keep intending on reading about the period but never quite manage to do so.
I have the most trustworthy source of all, by which I mean Wikipedia, by which I mean don't take a word of it for gospel. The only books I currently own on mid-19th-century America are on the American Civil War (Shelby Foote's trilogy is amazing). It's an interesting period though, from everything I've been reading on Wikipedia while researching for this travel writing. I'd do more creditable research, but frankly I don't have the time and I'm not trying to be a real historian anyway.
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Eighteen Days in America, Part 2
- 03/06/2012 09:06:46 PM
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I also found that KS Turnpike remarkably simple to use.
- 04/06/2012 02:46:28 AM
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Kansas
- 04/06/2012 03:44:46 PM
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Wikipedia claims the KS Turnpikes N/S sections are closer than interstate regs require.
- 04/06/2012 08:08:20 PM
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i love your continual references references to boring wyoming... i drove through there once.
- 04/06/2012 05:04:05 PM
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I'm glad that you didn't get abducted by crazy computer/cyborg boy.
- 05/06/2012 04:49:09 PM
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I really hate driving through Nebraska, and Kansas.
- 07/06/2012 10:05:07 PM
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Yeah, except for Kansas City, Kansas. *NM*
- 08/06/2012 04:22:36 PM
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Just joshin', bro.
- 09/06/2012 04:12:33 PM
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Oh, I don't care if you insult it, as long as your facts are correct. *NM*
- 11/06/2012 04:10:07 PM
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