The Butterfield Overland Mail by Waterman L. Ormsby PB 2007 VERY GOOD

Description: The Butterfield Overland Mail: Only Through Passenger on the First Westbound Stage (Huntington Library Publications) Trade Paperback 179 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Stated fourth printing 2007. Nice illustrated wraps show off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. No shelf wear with unbruised tips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. This is the classic firsthand account by Waterman L. Ormsby, a reporter who in 1858 crossed the western states as the sole through passenger of the Butterfield Overland Mail stage on its first trip from St. Louis to San Francisco. Ormsby's reports, which promptly appeared in the New York Herald, are lively and exciting. Ormsby describes the journey in close detail, giving full accounts of the conveyances, the accommodations, the other passengers, the country through which they passed, the dangers to which they were exposed, and the constant necessity for speed.

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Signed By: NONE

Signed: No

Ex Libris: No

Narrative Type: Nonfiction

Original Language: English

Inscribed: No

Intended Audience: Ages 9-12, Young Adults, Adults

Edition: Special Edition

Vintage: Yes

Personalize: No

Type: PAPERBACK

Personalized: No

Features: Illustrated

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Book Title: Butterfield Overland Mail : only Through Passenger on the First Westbound Stage

Number of Pages: 180 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Huntington Library Press

Publication Year: 2007

Item Height: 0.6 in

Topic: Intergovernmental Organizations, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), United States / West / General, United States / 19th Century

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Travel, Political Science, History

Item Weight: 12.8 Oz

Item Length: 9 in

Author: Waterman L. Ormsby

Item Width: 6.1 in

Book Series: The Huntington Library Classics Ser.

Format: Perfect