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The Butterfield Overland Mail 1857-1869
by Roscoe P and Margaret B Conkling
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
3 Volumes. 412 pages with frontispiece; 446 pages with frontispiece, bibliography, appendices and index; 77 plates (some folding) and 3 folding maps. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine, head end pages gilt, deckled foredges. Arthur Clark American Trail Series V. First edition.
Butterfield Overland Mail (officially the Overland Mail Company) was a stagecoach service in the United States operating from 1858 to 1861. It carried passengers and U.S. Mail from two eastern termini, Memphis, Tennessee, and St. Louis, Missouri, to San Francisco, California. The routes from each eastern terminus met at Fort Smith, Arkansas, and then continued through Indian Territory (Oklahoma), Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Mexico, and California ending in San Francisco. On March 3, 1857, Congress authorized the U.S. postmaster general, at that time Aaron V. Brown, to contract for delivery of the U.S. mail from St. Louis to San Francisco. Prior to this, U.S. Mail bound for the Far West had been delivered by the San Antonio and San Diego Mail Line (Jackass Mail) since June 1857. (Wikipedia)
Condition: Light rubbing to extremities, corners bumped, book plate to front pastedowns else a very good set.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- H0719
- Title
- The Butterfield Overland Mail 1857-1869
- Author
- Roscoe P and Margaret B Conkling
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Arthur H. Clark Company
- Place of Publication
- Glendale
- Date Published
- 1947
- Pages
- 3 volumes
- Size
- Royal octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- AMERICANA
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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