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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.

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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