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		<title>Westward rush of railroads advanced &#8216;hell on wheels&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ragged shanty towns followed rail heads as they moved westward.]]></description>
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		<title>French mining engineer writes of Western travels in 1867</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While kicking the dust off some boxes of old books, I ran onto a little volume I forgot I have. So I pulled it out of the box, blew some clouds of dust around the room, and took a close look at this little jewel. The title in English is "The Rocky Mountain West in ]]></description>
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		<title>How did people in the Old West really know what time it was?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have atomic clocks that can keep track of the "real" time in millionths of seconds -- but how did someone living in Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, etc., in, let's say 1855, know what time it was? Obviously, people living then in the Old West or anywhere else in the U.S., would have had timepieces, probably ]]></description>
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