Butterfield Overland Mail (officially Overland Mail Company) was a stagecoach service in the United States operating from 1858 to 1861. It carried passengers...
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through central Wyoming. The Overland Trail was famously used by the Overland Stage Company owned by Ben Holladay to run mail and passengers to Salt Lake...
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Overland Mail's president. In 1858 Overland Mail was awarded a government contract to carry United States Post Office mail over the southern overland...
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The Central Overland California and Pike's Peak Express Company was a stagecoach line that operated in the American West in the early 1860s, but it is...
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The Butterfield Overland Mail in California was created by the United States Congress on March 3, 1857, and operated until June 30, 1861. Subsequently...
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unable to pay Overland Mail Company. This caused Overland to default on its debts to Wells Fargo, allowing Wells Fargo to take control of the mail route. Wells...
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John Butterfield (businessman) (category Butterfield Overland Mail)
Butterfield Overland Mail Company was the longest stagecoach line in the world. The line operated from 1858 to 1861 on the Southern Overland Trail and established...
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Whitesboro, Texas (category Butterfield Overland Mail stations)
arrival of Ambrose B. White and his family in 1848. The Butterfield Overland Mail route used White's Westview Inn as the "Diamond Station" on its trail...
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the Butterfield Overland Mail Company Los Angeles Building was a large brick building in Los Angeles built by Butterfield Overland Mail Company built in...
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In Texas, the Butterfield Overland Mail service created by Congress on March 3, 1857, was operated until March 30, 1861. The route that was operated extended...
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Overland Mail Robbery is a 1943 American Western film directed by John English and written by Robert Creighton Williams and Robert Yost. The film stars...
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Oxbow Route, the Butterfield Overland Stage, or the Butterfield Stage "John Butterfield Father of the Butterfield Overland Mail". DesertUSA. Retrieved February...
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train. The name harkens back to the Central Overland Route, a stagecoach line operated by the Overland Mail Company between Salt Lake City, Utah, and Virginia...
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Overland Mail is a 1942 American Western film serial from Universal Pictures which stars Lon Chaney Jr., Noah Beery Jr. and Noah Beery Sr. It was subsequently...
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Pueblo de Los Ángeles (category Butterfield Overland Mail in California)
El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula, shortened to the Pueblo de los Ángeles, was the Spanish civilian pueblo settled...
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Firebaugh, California (category Butterfield Overland Mail in California)
the Rancho San Luis Gonzaga. Firebaugh was a station on the Butterfield Overland Stage. The Firebaugh's Ferry post office operated from 1860 to 1862. The...
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Butterfield Overland Mail in California Butterfield Overland Mail in New Mexico Territory Butterfield Overland Mail in Texas Butterfield Overland Mail in Indian...
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Jacksboro, Texas (category Butterfield Overland Mail stations)
began in 1859. Jacksboro was located on one route of the Butterfield Overland Mail. The county was one of the few in Texas to vote against secession before...
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The Central Overland Route (also known as the "Central Overland Trail", "Central Route", "Redden's Way", "Simpson's Route", or the "Egan Trail") was a...
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Oregon Trail (section Women on the Overland Trail)
1860, the American Civil War closed the heavily subsidized Butterfield Overland Mail stage Southern Route through the deserts of the American Southwest....
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Bridgeport, Texas (category Butterfield Overland Mail stations)
Butterfield Overland Mail stage route used for only a few months between August 1860 and March 1861. After the American Civil War began, the mail route was...
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Gila Bend, Arizona (category Butterfield Overland Mail stations)
Antonio-San Diego Mail Line. In 1858. as "Gila Ranch Station", it was a stage station on the more famous Butterfield Overland Mail route to California...
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The Butterfield Overland Mail in Arkansas and Missouri was created by the United States Congress on March 3, 1857, and operated until March 30, 1861....
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Decatur, Texas (category Butterfield Overland Mail stations)
Railway reached the town, and Decatur was added to the Butterfield Overland mail route. In 1881, the Wise County Old Settlers Reunion held their first...
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Battle of Picacho Pass (redirect from Picacho Pass Skirmish Site-Overland Mail Co. Stage Station at Picacho Pass)
Picacho Pass occurred near relay stations along the former Butterfield Overland Stagecoach route, which opened in 1859 and ceased operations when the war...
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Lobo, Texas (category Butterfield Overland Mail stations)
West. It was followed by the San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line and Butterfield Overland Mail and other mail routes from 1857 until the railroads arrived. In...
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Tucson, Arizona (category Butterfield Overland Mail)
on the San Antonio–San Diego Mail Line. In 1858, it became third division headquarters of the Butterfield Overland Mail and operated until the line was...
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Apache Pass (category Butterfield Overland Mail stations)
stagecoaches until the coming of the railroads. In 1858, the Butterfield Overland Mail Company began stagecoach service between Saint Louis, Missouri and San...
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Cooke's Spring, New Mexico (category Butterfield Overland Mail in New Mexico Territory)
San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line and Butterfield Overland Mail used it. The Cooke's Spring Station of the Butterfield Overland Mail stage route was located...
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San Elizario, Texas (category Butterfield Overland Mail in Texas)
San Elizario is a city in El Paso County, Texas, United States. Its population was 10,116 at the 2020 census. It is part of the El Paso metropolitan statistical...
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