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 ...

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.

established the Butterfield Overland stage service. He received a six-year, $600,000 federal contract to create 2,812-mile-long mail delivery service because demand for mail delivery in California was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...