Butterfield Overland Mail was a stagecoach service in the United States operating from 1858 to 1861. It carried passengers and U.S. Mail from two eastern termini, Memphis, Tennessee, and St. Louis, Mi
"The Overland Mail Coach," illustration from Arizona, As It Is (1877)
Butterfield and signature
Butterfield's stage (celerity) wagon partly designed by John Butterfield. Sixty-six were employed from Fort Smith, Arkansas, to Los Angeles, California.
Pinery Station in Guadalupe Mountains National Park
The Pony Express was an American express mail service that used relays of horse-mounted riders between Missouri and California. It was operated by the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Expres
Butterfield Overland Mail
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Pony Express'60 West bound 1860
Pony Express advertisement