The auction-house website called it a “one-horse open sleigh,” offering a photo of a familiar wintertime vehicle that made a simple song into a national treasure. “Dashing through the snow In a one-horse open sleigh Over…
Category: Vehicles
When rural mail was delivered by sleigh in snowy places
Posted in Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and Vehicles
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