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Measuring America how the United States was shaped by the greatest land sale in history

Explains how a single system of weights and measures was developed in order to help survey and map out the vast lands west of the Ohio River and examines the impact of the system on American history and culture.

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Main Author:	Linklater, Andro (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Plume, ©2003.
Subjects:	National characteristics, American. Public lands > United States > History. Frontier and pioneer life > United States. Surveying > United States > History. Surveyors > United States > History. Ohio River Valley > Geography. Ohio River Valley > Surveys > History. United States > Geography. United States > Surveys > History. United States > Territorial expansion.
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Summary:	Explains how a single system of weights and measures was developed in order to help survey and map out the vast lands west of the Ohio River and examines the impact of the system on American history and culture.
Item Description:	Originally published: New York, N.Y. : Walker & Co., 2002.
Physical Description:	311 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780452284593 0452284597
Author Notes:	Andro Linklate was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on December 10, 1944. He was the youngest child of the novelist Eric Linklater. He attended Belhaven Hill school in Dunbar, East Lothian, and then Winchester College, before studying modern history at New College, Oxford. He taught at a London comprehensive school until he was asked to complete the history of the Black Watch regiment that his father had been writing at the time of his death in 1974. It was published three years later and was well received. His other works include Amazing Maisie and the Cold Porridge Brigade, Wild People, The Code of Love, Measuring America, The Fabric of America, An Artist in Treason, Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die, and Owning the Earth. He died from a heart attack on November 3, 2013 at the age of 68. (Bowker Author Biography)