"Sammy Gregg heads west where fortunes are made with the goal of raising $15,000 in six months and returning to marry his childhood sweetheart. With frail physique and knowing nothing of fighting, guns, or horses, he sees an opportunity in the tough town of Munson, but it means going up against the toughest man in town"--
Stagecoach West is a comprehensive history of stagecoaching west of the Missouri.
In addition, according to Bowles, they carried “every possible mitigation of the fatigues and discomforts of the long ride.” George K. Otis of the Overland Mail Company and secretary to the Wells Fargo board of directors rode along with ...
Plagued by constant bandit attacks, Wells Fargo is falling on hard times. To restore public trust in their services, the company sends one well-publicised stagecoach from Denver to San Francisco.
The true story of the American West on film, through its shooting stars and the directors who shot them... Howard Hughes explores the Western, running from John Ford's 'Stagecoach' to the revisionary 'Tombstone'.
When stagecoach company owner Malcolm O'Brian promises to pay him double if he can rid him of the threats to his stagecoach line for good, bounty hunter Marty Keller agrees to take on as many outlaws as necessary. Original.
Book is all about the making of the famous movie and is generously illustrated with pictures from the movie.
... 241 Morse, Harry (W, F & Co. detective) 38 Mount Hamilton, CA 187–188 Mountain Charley 187 Mountain House, CA 65, ... T.J. 47 Mulligan,Joe (driver) 46–47 Mulvane, Charles 140 Murphy, __ (attorney) 252 Murphy, __ (Miss) 185 Murphy, ...
One journalist curious about life in the taverns along the stagecoach lines in Wisconsin and northern Illinois from the early 1800s until the 1880s was Harry Ellsworth Cole.
While vacationing at Camp Merriweather near Francisville, Mrs. Strook, an elderly citizen, asks Nancy to find an old stagecoach her great-uncle had hidden. This stagecoach may contain a valuable treasure...
J.V. Frederick describes in fascination detail the organization and operation of a vast transportation empire ruled by a man with executive genius and a gambler's instincts.