Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise ofDemocracy UPDATE:Default Title including two never-before-published novellas

including two never-before-published novellas

These ten stories take us across the country—from rural Pennsylvania to Southern California to suburban Connecticut—and deep into characters struggling to find meaning in their day-to-day lives

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Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise ofDemocracy UPDATE:Default Title including two never-before-published novellasAuthor Contributor(s): Linklater, Andro Publisher: Plume Date: 9 30 2003 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW In 1790, America was in enormous debt, having depleted what little money and supplies the country had during its victorious fight for independence. Before the nation's greatest asset, the land west of the Ohio River, could be sold it had to be measured out and mapped. And before that could be done, a uniform set of measurements had to be chosen