letters of westward expansion

Many years after the Revolution and after the new government was founded, people from all over America moved across the country. They moved for all different reasons which was part of the westward expansion like religious purposes and better this article states that "letters connected all of these migrants with homes they had left behind" this helped to get a connection across this up and coming country. This allowed the citizens to get news from home, the frontier, and the city which were delivered by the postal service which was holding the country together before the Civil War.  
https://postalmuseum.si.edu/letterwriting/lw03.html 

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