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Stagecoach west /

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: [New York] : Promontory Press, c1967.Description: x, 341 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0883940256
  • 9780883940259
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 978/.02
LOC classification:
  • F591 .M815 1967b
Contents:
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.
Summary: "The story of the frontier express lines that linked the nation together"--Jacket subtitle.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Vol info Status Date due Barcode
NF 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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