By the mid-1800s, traders were moving in and out of Santa Fe in growing numbers. U.S. soldiers had arrived. The feds ruled the territory. Settlers were coming in from the ...

That summer of 1848 had seen a flurry of line construction, as the telegraph wire snaked its way along the Mississippi River bluffs tying Iowa's river towns into a nationwide communications web.

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