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Cottonwood Connections - The Role of Mail Order In Settling The Plains

Looking up an item, placing an order and waiting for its imminent arrival didn?t start with the smiling cardboard boxes of the current internet marketplace, but with thick catalogues and the massive expansion of railroad service. In this episode Don Rowlison is joined by professor of history Dr. Leo Oliva in exploring the explosion of mail order in the late 1800s, and how it served the growing population of rural America.

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