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In the fall of 1841, Vermonter Reed Brown set out on a two-month odyssey with two goals: to obtain a patent for his improved carriage springs, and to assist his brother Nathaniel, in jail in Ohio. Reed kept a journal that chronicles the dangers and difficulties, as well as some of the pleasures, of travel in that time. He experienced: a steamboat explosion, a rail car derailment, hours of a bone-jarring stagecoach ride, delightful encounters with...