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In 1790, America's debt was enormous, having depleted the country's money and supplies during its victorious fight for independence. Before the nation's greatest asset--the land west of the Ohio River--could be sold, it had to be measured out and mapped. Measuring America tells the fascinating story of how we ultimately gained the American Customary System--the last traditional system in the world--and how one man's surveying chain indelibly imprinted its dimensions on the land, and on our culture from coast to coast.
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