The Overland Stage To California.

FRANK W. AND WILLIAM E. CONNELLEY ROOT

Publication: Published by the Authors, 1901, Topeka

First edition. Thick 8vo. Original deluxe binding of three quarter leather and decorative boards; with title, authors, and vignette of Indian in gilt on spine. Decorative endpapers. xvii [1], 630 pp., frontis., preface, acknowledgments, illustrated. plates, portraits, folding map. Preface by William Elsey Connelley. Adams Six Guns #1897: "The original is very rare and is considered the standard history of the early stage lines. It has some information on stagecoach robberies, Wild Bill Hickok, and Joseph Slade." The map depicts the lines of the Great Overland Stage Route, the Santa Fe Trail, Butterfield Overland and Dispatch, Mormon Route of 1847, etc. Root was a messenger in charge of Express, and an Agent of the Post Office Department on the Great Stage Line across the plains to California. This is the best history of the famous but short-lived Pony Express, and the various overland stage operations which preceded the Pacific Railroad. Root worked for the overland stage lines for a number of years, and his recollections and records, aided by the historian William E. Connelley, are the basis for this history."--William S. Reese.Rubbing to boards and all edges. Wear to corners, spine ends, and edges of spine. Spine is sunned with all gilt in very good condition. This is the only copy of this work that we've seen in an original three quarter leather binding...likely produced for authors or publisher in very limited quantity.

Inventory Number: 53043