The Butterfield Overland Mail: Only Through Passenger on the First Westbound Stage (Huntington Library Publications)
by Waterman L. Ormsby
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0873282329
- ISBN 13
- 9780873282321
- Seller
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About This Item
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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- Seller
- River House Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 657399
- Title
- The Butterfield Overland Mail: Only Through Passenger on the First Westbound Stage (Huntington Library Publications)
- Author
- Waterman L. Ormsby
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0873282329
- ISBN 13
- 9780873282321
- Publisher
- Huntington Library Press
- Place of Publication
- San Marino, CA
- Date Published
- 2007
- Pages
- 179
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
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