We are in receipt of the Alta California made up to a late hour of the night of October 10, for the Butterfield Overland Mail. A portion of its news has already been anticipated by telegraph.

Several attempts were made in the 1850s to provide shipping and mail service from the ... the most important cities in Central California. Butterfield Overland Stage: How Visalia connected with ...

The Butterfield Overland Mail Route to San Francisco was the fastest letter-carrying option for only a few months, when in April 1860, the Central Overland California and Pike's Peak Express ...

The Butterfield Overland Mail lasted for three years. In 1861, the first telegraph reached California, the Civil War began, and something else was more efficient for the mail. “The Pony Express ...

15, 1858, the first eastbound stage of the Butterfield Overland Mail Co ... certainly was a boost for California, and especially Los Angeles.” Before Butterfield, mail to Southern California ...

160 years ago this month, the fastest and longest stagecoach route from California to Missouri began service. Passengers and mail were transported across the 2,800-mile Butterfield Overland Mail ...

Built in 1858, the Oak Grove Stage Station is one of California’s oldest surviving stage stops. Tucked away in quiet hills, it once served weary travelers along the Butterfield Overland Mail route.

But even on its bad days, the Butterfield ... California. Largely a response to an April 1856 petition made by 75,000 Californians who wanted better ties to the east in the form of an overland ...

In 1850, when California became the 31st state in ... contract with the post office – a stagecoach with the Butterfield Overland Mail Company, with six passengers and mail, left San Francisco ...

LITTLE ROCK — An event in Fayetteville today kicks off a study to confirm the exact path of the Butterfield Overland Mail Route and determine whether it should be added to the National Park ...