Stagecoach west /
Material type: TextPublication details: [New York] : Promontory Press, c1967.Description: x, 341 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 0883940256
- 9780883940259
- 978/.02
- F591 .M815 1967b
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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NF | Chamberlin Free Public Library | Nonfiction | 388.34 MOO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | F591 | Available | 34517000181340 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-333) and index.
In the beginning -- Yankee ingenuity -- Dawn of the golden era -- Stagecoach center of the world -- On the Santa Fe Trail -- Aaron Brown and the Overland Mail -- Stage lines through the deserts -- The Butterfield Overland Line -- First Overland Stage journey -- An unbeatable adversary -- Stagecoach moguls in the making -- Pike's Peak or bust -- Silent partners in high places -- Pony Express and the bond scandal -- Wells Fargo in the driver's seat -- Big Ben Holladay makes a grab -- Roughshod master and crew -- Rise of the stagecoach king -- "May the Lord have mercy upon them" -- Aftermath of massacre -- Climax and death knell -- Where there's gold the wheels still roll -- Twilight of the golden era.
"The story of the frontier express lines that linked the nation together"--Jacket subtitle.
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