Chasing the Butterfield Overland Mail Stage
Title | Chasing the Butterfield Overland Mail Stage PDF eBook |
Author | Donald Mincke |
Publisher | |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Arkansas |
ISBN |
Chasing the Butterfield Overland Mail Service
Title | Chasing the Butterfield Overland Mail Service PDF eBook |
Author | Donald Mincke |
Publisher | |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Arkansas |
ISBN |
The Butterfield Overland Mail
Title | The Butterfield Overland Mail PDF eBook |
Author | Waterman Lilly Ormsby |
Publisher | Huntington Library Press |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
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.
Butterfield Overland Mail
Title | Butterfield Overland Mail PDF eBook |
Author | Sam Hicks |
Publisher | |
Pages | 39 |
Release | 1979* |
Genre | Coaching (Transportation) |
ISBN |
The Butterfield overland mail
Title | The Butterfield overland mail PDF eBook |
Author | Waterman Lilly Ormsby |
Publisher | |
Pages | 179 |
Release | 1942 |
Genre | Butterfield Overland Trail |
ISBN |
The First Overland Mail
Title | The First Overland Mail PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Barnes Lang |
Publisher | |
Pages | 108 |
Release | 1945 |
Genre | Butterfield Overland Trail |
ISBN |
The Butterfield Overland Mail
Title | The Butterfield Overland Mail PDF eBook |
Author | Waterman L. Ormsby |
Publisher | Pickle Partners Publishing |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2018-12-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1789125588 |
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