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900 Miles on the Butterfield Trail

by A. C. Greene
University of North Texas Press, 1994
Cloth: 978-0-929398-73-0 | Paper: 978-1-57441-213-0 | eISBN: 978-1-57441-493-6
Library of Congress Classification F593.G8145 1994
Dewey Decimal Classification 917.8042

TOC

  • Table of Contents 
    • A New Look
    • Part I 
    • John Butterfield's “gamble worth making” Begins—From St. Louis to the Red River
    • Part II 
    • The Long & Dangerous Days—The First Overland Mail Trip & Stations Along the Route
    • Part III 
    • New Routes—Up the Pecos, via the Guadalupes; Crossing at Horsehead: to El Paso via Fort Stockton, Fort Davis and the Rio Grande
    • Part IV 
    • Modern Travelers on the Butterfield Trail—The Past Is Not Past: The Trail's Still Down There
    • Part V 
    • Crossroads
      • An Inspector's Report
      • The Great Gainesville Hanging of 1862
      • Other Mail Lines
      • Later Tragedies: Warren Wagon Train Massacre, Elm Creek Raid, Turtle Hole
      • Faithful Old Dog “Shep” at Crow Springs
      • Bloys Camp Meeting
      • John Russell Bartlett
      • Death at Quitman Pass
      • Tragedy at Apache Pass
      • Rights and Wrongs of the Butterfield Trail
      • The Butterfield Stations in Los Angeles
    • Part VI 
    • Epilogue—The Dream Ends, But Legends Abide
    • Bibliography
    • Index
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