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The Butterfield Overland Mail : Only Through Passenger on the First Westbound Stage, Paperback / softback Book

The Butterfield Overland Mail : Only Through Passenger on the First Westbound Stage Paperback / softback

Edited by Lyle H. Wright, Josephine M. Bynum

Part of the Huntington Library Classics series

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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 promptly appeared in the "New York Herald", are lively and exciting.

He describes the journey in close detail, giving full accounts of the conveyances, the accommodations, the other passengers, the country through which they passed, the dangers to which they were exposed, and the constant necessity for speed.

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  • Format:Paperback / softback
  • Pages:179 pages, 1 map, 5 line illustrations
  • Publisher:Huntington Library Press,US
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  • ISBN:9780873282321
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  • Item not Available

  • Format:Paperback / softback
  • Pages:179 pages, 1 map, 5 line illustrations
  • Publisher:Huntington Library Press,US
  • Publication Date:
  • Category:
  • ISBN:9780873282321