Seventy Years On the Frontier Alexander Majors Memoirs of a Lifetime On the B
Seventy Years On the Frontier Alexander Majors Memoirs of a Lifetime On the B
Alexander Majors
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; thence across the Colorado River and up the valley of the Gila; thence via El Paso and through Texas, crossing the Arkansas River at Fort Gib- son, and thence to St. Louis, Mo. This route, the Senator claimed, was entirely too long; that the requirements of California demanded a more direct route, which would make quicker passage than could be made on such a circuitous route as the Butterfield line. Knowing that Russell, Majors & Waddell were running a daily stage between the Missouri River a...nd Salt Lake City, and that they were also heavily engaged in the trans- portation of Government stores on the same line, he asked Mr. Russell if his company could not be induced to start a pony express, to run over its stage line to Salt Lake City, and from thence to Sacramento; his object being to test the practicability of crossing the Sierra Nevadas, as well as the Rocky Mountains, with a daily line of communica- tion. After various consultations between these gentlemen, from time to time, the Senator urging the great necessity (182) THE PONY EXPRESS AND ITS BRAVE RIDERS.
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