Title: The Overland Stage to California: Personal Reminiscences and Authentic History of the Great Overland Stage Line and Pony Express from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean Author: Root, Frank A. & William Elsey Connelley Place: Topeka, Kansas Publisher: Date: 1901 Description: [2], xviii, 630, [4] pp. Profusely illus. with plates after photographs, paintings & drawings, folding map showing "the Great Overland Stage Route, the Santa Fe Trail, Butterfield Overland Despatch, Mormon Route of 1847, and the Leavenworth & Pike's Peak Express" tipped in at back. (8vo) pictorial light brown cloth with gilt titling. First Edition. According to Adams, "The original is very rare and is considered the standard history of the early stage lines. It has some information on stagecoach robberies, Wild Bill Hickok, and Joseph Slade." Cowan p.541; Howes R434; Graff 3526; Adams, Six Guns 1897. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear to cloth, a few small pin holes to rear cover, hinges beginning to crack; very good. Item number: 215678
Title: The Overland Stage to California: Personal Reminiscences and Authentic History of the Great Overland Stage Line and Pony Express from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean Author: Root, Frank A. & William Elsey Connelley Place: Topeka, Kansas Publisher: Date: 1901 Description: [2], xviii, 630, [4] pp. Profusely illus. with plates after photographs, paintings & drawings, folding map showing "the Great Overland Stage Route, the Santa Fe Trail, Butterfield Overland Despatch, Mormon Route of 1847, and the Leavenworth & Pike's Peak Express" tipped in at back. (8vo) pictorial light brown cloth with gilt titling. First Edition. According to Adams, "The original is very rare and is considered the standard history of the early stage lines. It has some information on stagecoach robberies, Wild Bill Hickok, and Joseph Slade." Cowan p.541; Howes R434; Graff 3526; Adams, Six Guns 1897. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear to cloth, a few small pin holes to rear cover, hinges beginning to crack; very good. Item number: 215678
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