Includes bibliographical references (page 45) and index.
Summary
Looks at the role that stagecoaches and Conestoga wagons played in carrying mail and passengers throughout America, and especially the West, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Contents
Trading on the Santa Fe Trail -- Wagons supplying army posts -- Stagecoach craftsmanship -- Delivering the mail -- Butterfield overland mail -- Western stage travel -- Stages in Colorado.