Rancho Valle de San Felipe
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Rancho Valle de San Felipe was a 9,972-acre Mexican land grant in present-day San Diego County, California, given in 1846 by Governor Pío Pico to Felipe Castillo. The grant was located in the San Feli
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Butterfield Overland Mail
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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