In this excerpt from the book's fourth chapter, Twain describes his 1861 journey by mule-drawn express mail coach, in the days before the railroad, and compares it to a newspaper article from the ...

The new Port Columbus airport opened to great fanfare in July 1929 as a key hub on an air-rail transcontinental travel route ...

“With the transcontinental railroad. There were a lot of Chinese who came. But then, with the Chinese Exclusion Act, they weren’t allowed to come into the United States anymore.