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| Lake Superior in Michigans Iron country 1800's
You who have always lived in a
country provided with frequent and regular mails can but feebly appreciate
what it is to live for months in a distant part of the country where few or
no mail facilities are enjoyed. It is a subject almost as important to most
people as food and raiment. The most ignorant or the illiterate, and the
poorest of the poor have letters written for them, and to themselves, and
enjoy receiving letters from far off friends with intense delight. From
1848 to 1854 Marquette county was one of the isolated places that the
Government did not think it worth while to provide with winter mail
facilities, and keenly was this deprivation felt by the people then living
there.
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