In the development of the American West, no two decades were so full of romance and change as the years from the California gold rush of 1849 to the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869. In two decades, the West was conquered and the secession movement rose and fell. From slow ox-team and prairie schooner to the dashing Pony Express, the overland mail service mirrored these monumental strides. Originally published in 1926, The Overland Mail was the first scholarly work to examine the impact of the ...
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In the development of the American West, no two decades were so full of romance and change as the years from the California gold rush of 1849 to the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869. In two decades, the West was conquered and the secession movement rose and fell. From slow ox-team and prairie schooner to the dashing Pony Express, the overland mail service mirrored these monumental strides. Originally published in 1926, The Overland Mail was the first scholarly work to examine the impact of the postal service on the expansion of the West as the service evolved from a private endeavor to a government-contracted business. LeRoy R. Hafen details how the mail service tied West to East, influenced politics and economics, promoted use of the overland trails, aided in settlement, and helped usher in the railroads. This classic work is here available in paperback for the first time. In a new foreword, David Dary assesses Hafen's contributions as a writer and historian.
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Good+ 1926 first edition. Green hardback covers. Shelf wear and rubbing to the spine edges and corners, with the corners lightly bumped. The text block is sound and the pages are clean.; 361 pages.
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Fine. Book First edition. Limited edition of 1253 copies. Very scarce. 361pp. 7 plates, drawings, facsimiles, folding map of the overland mail routes; bibliography, index. Handsomely rebound in red leather, gilt. Library perforations on title and last printed leaf, else a fine and clean copy. The first scholarly work on the overland mail: Establishment of the Postal Service; the Ocean Mail to the Pacific Coast; pioneer monthly mails to the inter-mountain region, the Butterfield Overland Mail; increases in mail line routes (1857-59); service to the Pike's Peak region; the Pony Express, and much more. "The definitive study of an important phase of early Western social and political development" (Wheat). This was the first book published by the Clark company for this author. [Clark and Brunet I: 109; Clark and Brunet II: 124; Cowan: p.256; Howes I: H-11; Howes II: H-11; Rocq: 16902; Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush: 86].