Download or read book Memorial of Overland Mail Company written by Butterfield Overland Mail Company and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Observations Suggested by the Memorial of the Overland Mail Co written by and published by . This book was released on 1860* with total page 7 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 . This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 0 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 Butterfield Overland Mail written by Waterman L. Ormsby and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the classic firsthand account by Waterman L. Ormsby, a reporter who in 1858 crossed the western states as the sole through passenger of the Butterfield Overland Mail stage on its first trip from St. Louis to San Francisco. Ormsby’s reports, which soon appeared in the New York Herald, are lively and exciting. He describes the journey in close detail, giving full accounts of the accommodations, the other passengers, the country through which they passed, the dangers to which they were exposed, and the constant necessity for speed. “A most interesting account of the first westbound trip of an overland mail stage.”—Southern California Historical Society Quarterly “The best narrative of the trip and one of the best accounts of western travel by stage.”—Pacific Historical Review “If other travelers had been as careful and observant as Ormsby we should know vastly more about our country and the ways of our fathers than we do...The book is fascinating. It will prove interesting to all who care for travelogues, the history of the West, and particularly to those interested in our economic history.”—Journal of Economic History
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 written by Waterman Lilly Ormsby and published by Huntington Library Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of a series of eight articles, published in six numbers of the New York hearld at intervals from September 26 to November 19, 1858.
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 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. 1 and 2 contain the historical text; v. 3 contains illustrations, maps, portraits, and plans.
Download or read book Butterfield Overland Mail Company written by F. P. Rose and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 14 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 First Overland Mail Butterfield Trail St Louis to San Francisco 1858 1861 written by Walter Barnes Lang and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Butterfield s Overland Mail Company written by Gerald T. Ahnert and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Overland Mail and Passenger Service written by Henry Edward Swensen and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Overland Mail 1849 1869 written by LeRoy Reuben Hafen and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the development of the American West, no two decades were so full of romance and change as the years from the California gold rush of 1849 to the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869. In two decades, the West was conquered and the secession movement rose and fell. From slow ox-team and prairie schooner to the dashing Pony Express, the overland mail service mirrored these monumental strides. Originally published in 1926, The Overland Mail was the first scholarly work to examine the impact of the postal service on the expansion of the West as the service evolved from a private endeavor to a government-contracted business. LeRoy R. Hafen details how the mail service tied West to East, influenced politics and economics, promoted use of the overland trails, aided in settlement, and helped usher in the railroads. This classic work is here available in paperback for the first time. In a new foreword, David Dary assesses Hafen’s contributions as a writer and historian.
Download or read book Charter of the Holladay Overland Mail and Express Company written by Holladay Overland Mail and Express Company and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First Overland Mail Butterfield Trail written by Walter Barnes Lang and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Development of the Overland Mail Service written by Thomas Lemuel James and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Articles of Association of the Overland Mail Company written by Overland Mail Company and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
