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Travel Toughness Shaped Early American Nation
An AP excerpt recalls how colonial travel hindered unity with rivers swamps and bad roads. Inns and taverns, early coaches like Mercereau’s Flying Machine, and the slow mail created a fragile network as Lexington news moved from Boston to Charleston.
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Daniel Latham
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