Reprinted by Long's College Book Co., Columbus, Ohio.
Majors was the lead steer of all freighters.
ORMSBY, W. L. _The Butterfield Overland Mail_, edited by Lyle
H. Wright and Josephine M. Bynum, Huntington Library, San
Marino, California, 1942. Ormsby rode the stage from St. Louis
to San Francisco in 1858 and contributed to the New York
_Herald_ the lively articles now made into this book.
ROOT, FRANK A., and CONNELLEY, W. E. _The Overland Stage to
California_, Topeka, Kansas, 1901. Reprinted by Long's College
Book Co., Columbus, Ohio. A full storehouse. Basic.
SANTLEBEN, AUGUST. _A Texas Pioneer_, edited by I. D. Affleck,
New York, 1910. OP. Best treatise available on freighting on
Chihuahua Trail.
TWAIN, MARK. _Roughing It_, 1871. Mark Twain went west by
stage.
WINTHER, O. O. _Express and Stagecoach Days in California_,
Stanford University Press, 1926. Compact, with bibliography.
OP.
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Pony Express
"PRESENTLY the driver exclaims, `Here he comes!'
"Every neck is stretched and every eye strained. Away across
the endless dead level of the prairie a black speck appears
against the sky.
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