Chasing the Butterfield Overland Mail Service
Author | : Donald Mincke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Arkansas |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Donald Mincke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Arkansas |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Roscoe Platt Conkling |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Americana |
ISBN | : |
V. 1 and 2 contain the historical text; v. 3 contains illustrations, maps, portraits, and plans.
Author | : Waterman Lily Ormsby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Butterfield Trail |
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Author | : F. P. Rose |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Coaching (Transportation) |
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Author | : Glen Sample Ely |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2016-03-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806154640 |
This is the story of the antebellum frontier in Texas, from the Red River to El Paso, a raw and primitive country punctuated by chaos, lawlessness, and violence. During this time, the federal government and the State of Texas often worked at cross-purposes, their confused and contradictory policies leaving settlers on their own to deal with vigilantes, lynchings, raiding American Indians, and Anglo-American outlaws. Before the Civil War, the Texas frontier was a sectional transition zone where southern ideology clashed with western perspectives and where diverse cultures with differing worldviews collided. This is also the tale of the Butterfield Overland Mail, which carried passengers and mail west from St. Louis to San Francisco through Texas. While it operated, the transcontinental mail line intersected and influenced much of the region's frontier history. Through meticulous research, including visits to all the sites he describes, Glen Sample Ely uncovers the fascinating story of the Butterfield Overland Mail in Texas. Until the U.S. Army and Butterfield built West Texas’s infrastructure, the region’s primitive transportation network hampered its development. As Ely shows, the Overland Mail Company and the army jump-started growth, serving together as both the economic engine and the advance agent for European American settlement. Used by soldiers, emigrants, freighters, and stagecoaches, the Overland Mail Road was the nineteenth-century equivalent of the modern interstate highway system, stimulating passenger traffic, commercial freighting, and business. Although most of the action takes place within the Lone Star State, this is in many respects an American tale. The same concerns that challenged frontier residents confronted citizens across the country. Written in an engaging style that transports readers to the rowdy frontier and the bustle of the overland road, The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail offers a rare view of Texas’s antebellum past.
Author | : Walter Barnes Lang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : Butterfield Overland Trail |
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Author | : Kirby Sanders |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Butterfield Overland Trail |
ISBN | : 9781484057223 |
Author | : Robert E. Pinkerton |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2017-06-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1787204693 |
First published in 1953, this book tells the story of John Butterfield, a mid-19th Century stagecoach and freight line operator and his line of stagecoaches, which took passengers and mail across the U.S. in the 1850s. Born on a farm in Berne, New York in 1801, Butterfield grew up on a farm and was mostly self-educated. At the age of 19, he became a professional stage driver. He was always interested in transportation, becoming involved in the livery business, establishing stage routes throughout New York. He also gained experience with steamboats, railroads, and local plank-roads. As a skilled businessman, he soon controlled most of the stage lines west of New York, and in 1849 he formed the companies that became American Express and Wells-Fargo, as well as the Butterfield Overland Stage Company. In 1857, American Express won the government contract for the first transcontinental stage line, carrying the mail from Missouri to California for $600,000 per year—the largest mail contract that had ever been awarded. Thus, Butterfield became president of the Overland Mail Company. Covering an exciting period in American history, this story of bravery and adventure will appeal to readers of all ages!
Author | : Gerald T. Ahnert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Postal service |
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Author | : Roscoe Platt Conkling |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Butterfield Overland Trail |
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