Six Horses

Book

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St. Joseph Museums

Name/Title

Six Horses

Entry/Object ID

L1997.1.45

Description

Six Horses is a history of stage coaching with a chapter on the Pony Express. Captain Banning was a stage coach driver. Time period predominently covered in this book is from the gold rush years of the 1849 to the 1860s when the train began taking over. Birch, Butterfield, Russell, Majors and Holladay are featured along with other less well know stage coach participants. Book contains no footnotes but does have a bibliography and an appendix. Appendix contains mileages between stations in various divisions. Appendix also contains a glossary. 410/Illustrations/Maps/Photographs.

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Pony express

Search Terms

Pony Express, Stage Coaching, Western Expansion, Pony Express Trail, Stagecoach, Butterfield Stage

Book Details

Author

Banning, Captain William and George Hugh

Place Published

City

New York City

State/Province

New York

Date Published

1928

Call No.

PonyExpress BA

Notes

Copy No.: 1

Condition

Overall Condition

Good

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Majors, Alexander

Person or Organization

Ben Holladay

Person or Organization

William Russell

Person or Organization

Butterfield