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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 (1901)

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 (1901)

Frank Albert Root
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Frank Albert Root went to Kansas in 1857 at the age of 20. In early in 1863 he went to work for the Overland Stage Line at Atchison, Kansas, as messenger from Atchison to Denver, a journey of 653 miles each way. In his work as a messenger he made 32 trips between the Missouri and the Rockies, and covering a distance of over 22,500 miles. He later became a publisher and conducted 8 papers in Kansas and Colorado.

Root was encouraged by famous author William Connelley to write his reminiscences and publish them into book form, which he did in 1901 in his book, "The Overland Stage to California". His book is the greatest book on the history of stagecoaching in the west. This volume treats particularly of that portion of the route extending from the Missouri river to Denver. It abounds in incident and adventure.

"The Overland Stage to California" is an entertaining medley of personal reminiscences, border tales, and historical narrative illustrated by hand drawn pictures that ornament the text. The book is the result of great labor and of painstaking effort to get information. Mr. Root was an express messenger in early days, and such recollections of the rough life of forty years ago as he has given constitute the best part of the book, which is likely to prove of great service to the historian who is endeavoring to recreate the western movement.

The Overland Trail was famously used by the Overland Stage Company owned by Ben Holladay to run mail and passengers to Salt Lake City, Utah, via stagecoaches in the early 1860s. Starting from Atchison, the trail descended into Colorado before looping back up to southern Wyoming and rejoining the Oregon Trail at Fort Bridger. The stage line operated until 1869 when the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad eliminated the need for mail service via the' stagecoach. Remains of stage stops are scattered throughout Wyoming and northern Colorado including well preserved buildings at Virginia Dale, Colorado and Point of Rocks, Wyoming.

The value of this book lies in its fidelity—in its strict adherence to truth and its faithfulness to fact. It is, first of all, a historical work, the story of an eye-witness; but in the relation of historical incidents it often touches the story of the romance of the plains. Perhaps its principal mission in the future will be to preserve the real spirit of the first gigantic enterprises of the great West. These enterprises were of much moment in their day, but were only the forerunners of greater things. The vastness of the expanse and the conditions existing upon it made it necessary to do things on a greater scale than in the settlement and development of any other portion of the continent. It has been said—and truly said—that the conquest of the great western wilderness, many of the events of which are portrayed in this volume, constitutes the most fascinating romance in all history.

CONTENTS.
I. The Overland Mail
II. The Great American Desert — Home of the Buffalo
III. First Daily Overland Mail
IV. The Overland Stage Line
V. The Overland Pony Express
VI. Building the Pacific Telegraph and Railroads
VII. Excitement over the Pike's Peak Gold Discovery
VIII. On the Early History of Colorado
IX. Denver's Early Eastern Mail
X. My First Trip across the Plains
XI. The Platte Valley, Fort Kearney, etc.
XII. The Overland Stage Drivers
XIII. Overland Freighting — New Routes
XIV. Appointed Mail Agent at Latham
XV. Indian Raids, and Adventures on the Plains
XVI. My Last Trip on the Overland Stage
XVII. Smoky Hill Route — Butterfield's Overland Despatch
XVIII. Recollections of Early Atchison
XIX.
Language
English
Pages
686
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
April 17, 2016

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 (1901)

Frank Albert Root
0/5 ( ratings)
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Frank Albert Root went to Kansas in 1857 at the age of 20. In early in 1863 he went to work for the Overland Stage Line at Atchison, Kansas, as messenger from Atchison to Denver, a journey of 653 miles each way. In his work as a messenger he made 32 trips between the Missouri and the Rockies, and covering a distance of over 22,500 miles. He later became a publisher and conducted 8 papers in Kansas and Colorado.

Root was encouraged by famous author William Connelley to write his reminiscences and publish them into book form, which he did in 1901 in his book, "The Overland Stage to California". His book is the greatest book on the history of stagecoaching in the west. This volume treats particularly of that portion of the route extending from the Missouri river to Denver. It abounds in incident and adventure.

"The Overland Stage to California" is an entertaining medley of personal reminiscences, border tales, and historical narrative illustrated by hand drawn pictures that ornament the text. The book is the result of great labor and of painstaking effort to get information. Mr. Root was an express messenger in early days, and such recollections of the rough life of forty years ago as he has given constitute the best part of the book, which is likely to prove of great service to the historian who is endeavoring to recreate the western movement.

The Overland Trail was famously used by the Overland Stage Company owned by Ben Holladay to run mail and passengers to Salt Lake City, Utah, via stagecoaches in the early 1860s. Starting from Atchison, the trail descended into Colorado before looping back up to southern Wyoming and rejoining the Oregon Trail at Fort Bridger. The stage line operated until 1869 when the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad eliminated the need for mail service via the' stagecoach. Remains of stage stops are scattered throughout Wyoming and northern Colorado including well preserved buildings at Virginia Dale, Colorado and Point of Rocks, Wyoming.

The value of this book lies in its fidelity—in its strict adherence to truth and its faithfulness to fact. It is, first of all, a historical work, the story of an eye-witness; but in the relation of historical incidents it often touches the story of the romance of the plains. Perhaps its principal mission in the future will be to preserve the real spirit of the first gigantic enterprises of the great West. These enterprises were of much moment in their day, but were only the forerunners of greater things. The vastness of the expanse and the conditions existing upon it made it necessary to do things on a greater scale than in the settlement and development of any other portion of the continent. It has been said—and truly said—that the conquest of the great western wilderness, many of the events of which are portrayed in this volume, constitutes the most fascinating romance in all history.

CONTENTS.
I. The Overland Mail
II. The Great American Desert — Home of the Buffalo
III. First Daily Overland Mail
IV. The Overland Stage Line
V. The Overland Pony Express
VI. Building the Pacific Telegraph and Railroads
VII. Excitement over the Pike's Peak Gold Discovery
VIII. On the Early History of Colorado
IX. Denver's Early Eastern Mail
X. My First Trip across the Plains
XI. The Platte Valley, Fort Kearney, etc.
XII. The Overland Stage Drivers
XIII. Overland Freighting — New Routes
XIV. Appointed Mail Agent at Latham
XV. Indian Raids, and Adventures on the Plains
XVI. My Last Trip on the Overland Stage
XVII. Smoky Hill Route — Butterfield's Overland Despatch
XVIII. Recollections of Early Atchison
XIX.
Language
English
Pages
686
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
April 17, 2016

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