Description: The Butterfield Overland Mail: Only Through Passenger on the First Westbound Stage (Huntington Library Publications) Trade Paperback 179 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Stated fourth printing 2007. Nice illustrated wraps show off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. No shelf wear with unbruised tips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. This is the classic firsthand account by Waterman L. Ormsby, a reporter who in 1858 crossed the western states as the sole through passenger of the Butterfield Overland Mail stage on its first trip from St. Louis to San Francisco. Ormsby's reports, which promptly appeared in the New York Herald, are lively and exciting. Ormsby describes the journey in close detail, giving full accounts of the conveyances, the accommodations, the other passengers, the country through which they passed, the dangers to which they were exposed, and the constant necessity for speed.
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Signed By: NONE
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
Inscribed: No
Intended Audience: Ages 9-12, Young Adults, Adults
Edition: Special Edition
Vintage: Yes
Personalize: No
Type: PAPERBACK
Personalized: No
Features: Illustrated
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Book Title: Butterfield Overland Mail : only Through Passenger on the First Westbound Stage
Number of Pages: 180 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Huntington Library Press
Publication Year: 2007
Item Height: 0.6 in
Topic: Intergovernmental Organizations, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), United States / West / General, United States / 19th Century
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Travel, Political Science, History
Item Weight: 12.8 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Waterman L. Ormsby
Item Width: 6.1 in
Book Series: The Huntington Library Classics Ser.
Format: Perfect
