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David Ferry

Acclaimed essayist and poet Wendell Berry was born and has always lived in a provincial part of the country without an established literary culture

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Riders of the Pony Express by Ralph Moody Asian as well as the bestPrior to the Civil War, the fastest mail between the West Coast and the East took almost thirty days by stagecoach along a southern route through Texas. Some Californians feared their state would not remain in the Union, separated so far from the free states. Then businessman William Russell invested in a way to deliver mail between San Francisco and the farthest western railroad, in Saint Joseph, Missouri across two thousand miles of mountains,