Description: Butterfield's Byway: America's First Overland Mail Route Across the West by Melody Groves John Butterfields mail service connected the East and West Coasts in one of the great entrepreneurial and pioneering stories of the American West. Until 1858, Californias gold fields were reached only by horseback, wagon or ship around Cape Horn. Congress decided a 2,800-mile, twenty-five-day stagecoach line would roll from St. Louis to San Francisco. Former Utica, New York mayor Butterfield hired one thousand men and bought 1,200 horses, 600 mules and 250 wagons. Surveying the wilderness, he built roads and two hundred way stations, graded river fords and dug one hundred wells. Join author Melody Groves on a cross-country trip from Missouri to California, and all points in between, as she recounts the Butterfield Stage Lines amazing odyssey. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Melody Groves, author of four novels set in the 1860s Southwest, also wrote"Ropes, Reins, and Rawhide: All About Rodeo" (UNM Press). A New Mexico gunfighter, she reenacts "shoot-outs" in Albuquerques Old Town. Details ISBN1626194874 Author Melody Groves Short Title BUTTERFIELDS BYWAY Language English ISBN-10 1626194874 ISBN-13 9781626194878 Media Book Format Paperback Birth 1952 Pages 187 Publisher History Press (SC) Illustrations Yes Series Transportation Year 2014 Publication Date 2014-05-13 Imprint History Press, The Subtitle Americas First Overland Mail Route Across the West DEWEY 917.804/09034 Audience General/Trade We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:138007896;
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