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Overview
"Remember, boys, nothing on God's earth must stop the United States mail!" said John Butterfield to his drivers. Short as the life of the Southern Overland Mail turned out to be (1858 to 1861), the saga of the Butterfield Trail remains a high point in the westward movement. A. C. Greene offers a history and guide to retrace that historic and romantic Trail, which stretches 2800 miles from the Mississippi River to the Pacific coast.Author Biography: A. C. GREENE, often called the dean of Texas letters, was the author of more than twenty books, including A Personal Country. He was a Fellow in the Texas State Historical Association and the Texas Institute of Letters.
Synopsis
"Remember, boys, nothing on God's earth must stop the United States mail!" said John Butterfield to his drivers. Short as the life of the Southern Overland Mail turned out to be (1858 to 1861), the saga of the Butterfield Trail remains a high point in the westward movement. A. C. Greene offers a history and guide to retrace that historic and romantic Trail, which stretches 2800 miles from the Mississippi River to the Pacific coast.
Author Biography: A. C. GREENE, often called the dean of Texas letters, was the author of more than twenty books, including A Personal Country. He was a Fellow in the Texas State Historical Association and the Texas Institute of Letters.
Library Journal
Greene (The Santa Claus Bank Robbery, Gulf Pub., 1986) has sensitively compiled a refreshing and currently relevant survey of the longest stagecoach line in world history. The writer's own recent travels over the varied miles of the trail are combined with recent scholarship to bring forth an exciting companion to anyone wishing to visit famous stations and stops along this vanished bastion of Americana. We experience the frustrations of attempting to connect with elusive points of interest as well as the satisfaction of standing at the very place that so many appointments and transactions of a bygone era were made. Besides the thorough coverage of the St. Louis-to-California route, this work gives special attention to the sections of the trail that pass through the wilds of Texas. Additional anecdotes and profiles conclude this most satisfying addition to a topic last covered by the The Butterfield Overland Mail (1947). Recommended for public library and college U.S. history collections.-Bruce Alan Hanson, Wayzata East J.H.S. Lib., Minn.