Download or read book A Compendium of the Overland Mail Company on the South Route 1858 1861 and the Period Surrounding it written by G. C. Tompkins and published by Millefleurs. This book was released on 1985 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail 1858 1861 written by Glen Sample Ely and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-03-04 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Settlement of America written by James A. Crutchfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2015. This encyclopaedic collection includes Volumes 1 (A-L) and 2 (M-Z) as well as essays on the settlement of America. It can be argued that the westward expansion occurred only one week after the English landfall at Jamestown, Virginia, on May 14, 1607. Beginning on May 21, Captain John Smith, one of the colonization company’s leaders, and twenty-one companions made their way northwest up the James River for some 50 or 60 miles (80 or 96 km).

Download or read book Stagecoach North written by Ken Mather and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at the origins and operations of a pioneering transportation company that moved people and goods across the province throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. At the height of the Cariboo Gold Rush, demand for an efficient transportation route to and from the goldfields was reaching a point of desperation. With a lack of reliable roads to traverse the vast and rugged BC landscape, delivering food, mining equipment, and mail to the newly built gold rush towns was a constant challenge, not to mention the logistics of transporting people. This book tells the fascinating story of one company that attempted to connect the province at an unprecedented time of growth and change. Barnard’s Express (1862–1878), later known as BX or the British Columbia Express Company (1878–1921) reflects the ingenuity, risk, and enterprising spirit of the era. Focusing on the stagecoach line, which ran from Yale to Barkerville from 1864 until 1886 and from Ashcroft to Barkerville after the construction of the CPR, historian Ken Mather uncovers new details about the gold rush through the lens of this groundbreaking company’s operations. Rich in anecdotes and character sketches backed up with extensive research, this is the first full-length book to cover the history of one of BC’s most important early businesses.

Download or read book 900 Miles on the Butterfield Trail written by A. C. Greene and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Remember, boys, nothing on God's earth must stop the United States mail!" said John Butterfield to his drivers. Short as the life of the Southern Overland Mail turned out to be (1858 to 1861), the saga of the Butterfield Trail remains a high point in the westward movement. A.C. Greene offers a history and guide to retrace that historic and romantic Trail, which stretches 2800 miles from the Mississippi River to the Pacific coast.

Download or read book Postal History of John Butterfield s Overland Mail Co on the Southern Central Routes Including Butterfield s Pony Express 1858 1864 written by Bob O Crossman and published by . This book was released on 2023-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new full color book reports on the mail carried by Butterfield's Overland Mail between September 1858 and March 1861 on the Southern Ox Bow Route, and beginning in July of 1861 on the Central Route. Also, to include additional information and artifacts from US transcontinental mail carried immediately before and immediately after the existence of Butterfield's Overland Mail Co. In most instances within his previous three books on Butterfield's Overland Mail Co., he focused primarily on the Arkansas route. This volume, by contrast, expands to focus on the entire route of the Butterfield. Also, by contrast, this volume focuses on Butterfield's presence on the Southern Ox-bow Route and later on the northern Central Route. In addition, this volume covers the entire time period of the Overland Mail Company's contract with the postal system: 1858-1864. While the purpose of this research of the Overland Mail was to satisfy his personal curiosity, he is hopeful that summary of Butterfield Postal History will also make a contribution to Butterfield's Overland Mail Co. new status as a National Historic Trail.

Download or read book Butterfield s Overland Mail Co Use of STEAMBOATS to Deliver Mail and Passengers Across Arkansas 1858 1861 written by Bob O. Crossman and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Crossman's latest book explores the untold story of John Butterfield's use of STEAMBOATS to carry the Overland Mail over portions of the Fort Smith to Memphis route of Butterfield's Overland Trail.

Download or read book The First Overland Mail written by Walter Barnes Lang and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Butterfield Overland Mail 1857 1869 written by Roscoe Platt Conkling and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: vols. 1-2. Historical text -- vol. 3. Illustrations, maps, portraits, and plans.

Download or read book The Trail West written by John M. Townley and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A History of the Overland Mail written by Curtis Putnam Nettels and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Butterfield Overland Mail 1857 1869 written by Roscoe Platt Conkling and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Overland Mail 1849 1869 written by Le Roy Reuben Hafen and published by Cleveland, Arthur H. Clark Company. This book was released on 1926 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Butterfield Overland Mail 1857 1869 written by Roscoe P. Conkling and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Butterfield Overland Mail 1857 1869 written by Roscoe P. Conkling and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Bibliography of the Butterfield Overland Mail 1858 1861 written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: