Name/Title
PrintEntry/Object ID
2022.2.249Context
Ridley’s Believe it or Not! print of two cowboys riding on a stage coach pulled by mules.
Included is a label:
“The most extraordinary race in history
AN OVERLAND STAGE
Using relays on mules
Left St. Louis for San Francisco at the same time as “The Great Eastern” steamship departed New York for rev west coast city via South America
- WITH $100,000 WAGERED ON THE OUTCOME OF THEIR RACE!
John Butterfield of the overland stage coach won the bet by 36 hours
- The coach traveling 2,795 miles in 20 days
1859”Collection
Marshall White