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[2014]
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"A history of the first stagecoach line to connect the East and West coasts"--
"John Butterfield's mail service connected the East and West coasts in one of the great entrepreneurial and pioneering stories of the American West. Until 1858, California's gold fields were reached only by horseback, wagon or ship around Cape Horn. Congress decided a 2,800-mile, twenty-five-day stagecoach line would roll from St. Louis to San Francisco. Former Utica,...
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