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Glencoe Language Arts: Grammar and Language Workbook, Grade 9

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McGraw-Hill

ISBN: 9780028182940

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Page 193: Exercise 1

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In the mid-1800s the best way to get a letter from New York to San Francisco was to ship it around South America. This shipping was slow and inexpensive.

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Clipper ships took about three months, which was too long, to make the trip.

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When railroads first began to be built, they couldn’t be taken across the country.

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Railroad tracks did not run between Missouri and the Pacific Coast.

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This area without railroad tracks, called the “great American desert,” was not inhabited by anyone.

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Some stagecoaches, which moved very slow, crossed this land.

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You could get mail sent from New York to Missouri in four days.

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Then the mail carriers had to cross the plains and maneuver through the mountains, a journey which stretched for 1,500 miles.

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You could get a letter from Missouri to California, which was 2,000 miles, in 25 days.

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The Pony Express was created in 1860.

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This was a series of relay stations where fresh horses and riders waited to take the mail; these horses and riders were much faster than stagecoaches.

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The horses and riders carried the mail 220 miles each day.

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At first, the relay stations were 25 miles apart, which was too far for the riders to run at full speed.

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Intermediate depots, where you could change mounts, were set up every 10 to 15 miles.

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Mail could travel from Missouri to San Francisco in 10 days.

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The Pony Express, which stopped operating after a year and a half, received no subsidy from the government.

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The Pony Express, which was a financial disaster, came to be one of the most colorful episodes of the American West.

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Then, in 1861, first telegraph lines were stretched across the country. These lines allowed one to send messages faster.

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At almost the same time, the Pony Express, which was very expensive, stopped operating.

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The first transcontinental railroad was built in 1969.

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