Dominick Lioce
Westward Expansion Letters
https://user.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/html/camltr01.html


1) The letters were updates sent back to other family members descrying the life they are living in the west. Including the terrain, and the amount of land they have acquired, also they speak of finance, and missing the family they are writing too.

2) What stood out to me in the letter was the price of the land, and that you could so readily buy land wherever, but there was a large rush to get to an office to file for buying the land, which shows the competition and necessity for speed when trying to live on and buy land.

3) The importance of writing these letters was far greater than we can ever know, nowadays we can call and text whenever we want but back then they had to write these letters just so their relatives knew they were still alive, and since it was their only form of communication it was of upmost importance to them and their survival and happiness.