The California Overland Express : The Longest Stage-Ride in the World

by Tallack, William

First edition

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Book Description

Los Angeles: The Historical Society of Southern California, 1935. Hardcover First edition 9.25" x 6". 85pp. Bound in paper boards, cloth spine lettered in black. Illustrated. Very good with light browning to boards & top edge, trace of spotting on rear endpapers, otherwise clean & unmarked. A scarce work featuring an introduction by Carl I. Wheat; an excerpt from the San Francisco Bulletin, November 5 1858, titled Notes of Travel by the Overland Mail, San Francisco to Fort Yuma; an outline of the Butterfield Route; an essay by Frank Rolfe titled The location of the Butterfield Stage Station in the Temescal Valley, Riverside County; and a checklist of published material on the Butterfield Overland Mail. Includes a folding facsimile of "Dixson & Kasson's map of the Overland and Ocean-Mail Routes between the Pacific and Atlantic States and Ports," published by Hutchings & Rosenfield, San Francisco, 1859. This edition printed by Ward Ritchie of Los Angeles and limited to 125 copies.

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