900 Miles on the Butterfield Trail
Short as the life of the Southern Overland Mail turned out to be (1858 to 1861), the saga of the Butterfield Trail remains a high point in the westward movement. This work offers a history and guide to retrace that historic and romantic Trail, which stretches 2800 miles from the Mississippi River to...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Denton :
University of North Texas Press,
2006.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- pt. I. John Butterfield's "gamble worth making" begins : from St. Louis to the Red River
- pt. II. The long & dangerous days : the first overland mail trip & stations along the route
- pt. III. New routes
- up the Pecos, via the Guadalupes, crossing at Horsehead : to El Paso via Fort Stockton, Fort Davis and the Rio Grande
- pt. IV. Modern travelers on the Butterfield Trail
- the past is not past : the trail's still down there
- pt. V. Crossroads
- pt. VI. Epilogue : the dream ends, but legends abide.