Puzzle for March 18, 2010

The Wells Fargo shipping service started today in 1852. The Gold Rush in California had created a huge demand for cross-country shipping.

If you had to create the shipping routes between the cities listed below, what's the shortest distance you could send the stagecoach team to hit all the cities in one trip?

The cities we want to travel between are "Angeles", "Bend", "Clifton", "Decker", "Eastman" and "Fargo." The distances between each are listed in the chart below. (The map is clearly not to scale!)

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