Butterfield's Byway: America's First Overland Mail Route

Butterfield's Byway: America's First Overland Mail Route Across the West (Transportation)

John Butterfield's mail service connected the East and West Coasts in one of the great entrepreneurial and pioneering stories of the American West. Until 1858, California's 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 Line's amazing odyssey.
Country USA
Brand The History Press
Manufacturer The History Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber , black & white illustrations, maps
ReleaseDate 2014-05-13
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781626194878

Country	USA
Brand	The History Press
Manufacturer	The History Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	, black & white illustrations, maps
ReleaseDate	2014-05-13
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781626194878

Butterfield's Byway: America's First Overland Mail Route Across the West (Transportation)