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  • Thumbnail for Butterfield Overland Mail
    Butterfield Overland Mail (officially the Overland Mail Company) was a stagecoach service in the United States operating from 1858 to 1861. It carried...
    79 KB (11,035 words) - 02:45, 23 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Butterfield Overland Mail in California
    other stage lines operated along the Butterfield Overland Mail in route in Alta California until the Southern Pacific Railroad arrived in Yuma, Arizona in...
    18 KB (1,908 words) - 06:25, 25 September 2023
  • through central Wyoming. The Overland Trail was famously used by the Overland Stage Company owned by Ben Holladay to run mail and passengers to Salt Lake...
    12 KB (1,530 words) - 03:04, 6 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Butterfield (businessman)
    Southwest. He founded many companies, including American Express which is still in operation today. The Butterfield Overland Mail Company was the longest stagecoach...
    18 KB (2,320 words) - 07:33, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Overland Limited (UP train)
    named the Overland Monthly while previously various stagecoach companies such as the Butterfield Overland Mail had incorporated "Overland" into their...
    22 KB (2,536 words) - 21:57, 27 March 2024
  • The Central Overland Route (also known as the "Central Overland Trail", "Central Route", "Simpson's Route", or the "Egan Trail") was a transportation...
    9 KB (1,260 words) - 23:18, 1 November 2022
  • The San Antonio–San Diego Mail Line, also known as the Jackass Mail, was the earliest overland stagecoach and mail operation from the Eastern United States...
    18 KB (2,274 words) - 09:11, 18 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Wells Fargo (1852–1998)
    Service mail over the southern overland route from Memphis and St. Louis to California. From the beginning, Wells Fargo was Overland Mail's banker and...
    51 KB (6,834 words) - 06:35, 12 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Southern Emigrant Trail
    it was followed by the San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line in 1857–1858 and then the Butterfield Overland Mail from 1858 to 1861. In October 1846, General...
    11 KB (1,450 words) - 03:32, 5 April 2024
  • Cow Springs Ranch (category Butterfield Overland Mail stations)
    County, New Mexico, originally Ojo de Vaca when it was a Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach station at Ojo de Vaca (Cow Springs), in New Mexico Territory...
    4 KB (398 words) - 01:31, 3 January 2024
  • The Butterfield Overland Mail route in Baja California was created as a result of an act by the United States Congress on March 3, 1857, and operated...
    6 KB (690 words) - 10:08, 14 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company
    The Central Overland California and Pike's Peak Express Company was a stagecoach line that operated in the American West in the early 1860s, but it is...
    31 KB (4,268 words) - 15:24, 21 November 2023
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    postal system to deliver mail quickly, securely, and cheaply. Adequate speed was always a problem, because of the slow overland transportation system, and...
    66 KB (7,799 words) - 14:07, 13 June 2024
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    Apache Pass (category Butterfield Overland Mail stations)
    stagecoaches until the coming of the railroads. In 1858, the Butterfield Overland Mail Company began stagecoach service between Saint Louis, Missouri and San Francisco...
    10 KB (1,494 words) - 19:05, 16 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for Maricopa Wells, Arizona
    Maricopa Wells, Arizona (category Butterfield Overland Mail stations)
    stage station for the San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line and Butterfield Overland Mail, and later stage companies. At one time this was the primary military...
    6 KB (364 words) - 04:12, 27 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Overland Route (Union Pacific Railroad)
    The name harkens back to the Central Overland Route, a stagecoach line operated by the Overland Mail Company between Salt Lake City, Utah, and Virginia...
    23 KB (2,818 words) - 18:22, 17 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dragoon Springs Stage Station Site
    Dragoon Springs Stage Station Site (category Butterfield Overland Mail stations)
    order dated March 2, 1861, was sent to the Overland Mail Company to transfer the contract to the Central Overland Trail, because of the start of the Civil...
    25 KB (3,965 words) - 13:25, 20 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Lobo, Texas
    Lobo, Texas (category Butterfield Overland Mail stations)
    West. It was followed by the San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line and Butterfield Overland Mail and other mail routes from 1857 until the railroads arrived. In...
    10 KB (786 words) - 08:38, 20 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Southern Pacific Transportation Company
    various companies under the names Southern Pacific Railroad, Southern Pacific Company and Southern Pacific Transportation Company. The original Southern Pacific...
    47 KB (5,044 words) - 13:21, 7 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vallecito, San Diego County, California
    Vallecito, San Diego County, California (category Butterfield Overland Mail stations)
    Margaret Badenoch Conkling, The Butterfield Overland Mail, 1857-1869: its organization and operation over the southern route to 1861; subsequently over the central...
    18 KB (2,303 words) - 05:04, 31 December 2023
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