SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - This weekend, postage on a first-class stamp goes up to 73 cents. There’s been a lot of changes to the mail system over the years. That includes a unique mail trail through ...
Prior to September 1858 there had never been an overland mail route from St. Louis, Missouri, or Memphis, Tennessee, to anywhere in California. Mail going in either direction had to do so by steamship ...
Prologue: Where It All Began -- Part I. Setting the Stage-Metaphorically Speaking -- New Mexico Territory...or Is This Arizuma? -- Texas : Ignored but Never Forgotten -- California at the Center -- ...
FAYETTEVILLE -- Representatives from the National Park Service met Thursday evening with local residents, city representatives, planners, history buffs and those with family ties to kick off the ...
“A wall will be erected along the frontier,” wrote a journalist along the U.S.-Mexico border. “Posting large bodies of men . . . might serve the double purpose of keeping the Indians in check and ...