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The Texas frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail, 1858-1861 / Glen Sample Ely.
- Title
- The Texas frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail, 1858-1861 / Glen Sample Ely.
- Author
- Ely, Glen Sample
- Publication
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2016]
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- Description
- xii, 428 pages; 27 cm
- Summary
- "This book tells the history of Texas's antebellum frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail, which ran from St. Louis to San Francisco through Texas from 1858 to 1861. The Overland Mail Road intersected and influenced much of Texas's frontier history and was the nineteenth-century equivalent of the modern interstate highway system, stimulating passenger traffic, commercial freighting, and business"--Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Local history
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The Texas frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail -- From the Red River to Young County -- Detour to Decatur and Bridgeport -- Bedlam at Belknap -- From the Brazos to Valley Creek -- From Fort Chadbourne to the North Concho -- From the North Concho to Horsehead Crossing -- The upper road to El Paso -- The lower road to El Paso : from Horsehead Crossing to Van Horn's Wells -- From Van Horn's Wells to El Paso -- The end of the line.
- ISBN
- 9780806152219
- 0806152214
- LCCN
- ^^2015036823
- OCLC
- 921995152
- SCSB-11302405
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library