The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 59, July 1955 - April, 1956 Page: 209
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The San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line
Etc. Chicago (W. B. Conkey Company), 190o. Roster of ante-
bellum residents of El Paso: p. 18, Colonel George H. Giddings,
manager, San Antonio Mail Company; p. 19, H. C. Hall, agent,
San Antonio Mail Company; p. 19, Dr. Nangle, agent, San An-
tonio Mail Company, Union (Army), dead; p. 2o, J. E. Terry,
with the stage company, lives in El Paso; p. 24, mentions Butter-
field Overland Mail Company, a stage from Santa Fe, New Mexico,
and one from San Antonio, Texas (1858); p. 36, "In 1859 the
San Antonio Mail Company had its headquarters on the lots
where the Sheldon Building now stands .." Description, 1859--
murder and robbery of the store.
Ormsby, Waterman L., The Butterfield Overland Mail, eds. Lyle
H. Wright and Josephine M. Bynum. San Marino, California
(The Huntington Library), 1942. Ormsby was the only through
passenger on the first westbound stage of the Butterfield Line,
September 15, 1858. Account written for the New York Herald.
Jim Birch's line, pp. 132, 135, 142-143, 145-146.
Richardson, Albert D., Beyond the Mississippi, From the Great
River to the Great Ocean: Life and Adventure on the Prairies,
Mountains, and Pacific Coast With More Than Two Hundred
Illustrations, From Photographs and Original Sketches, of the
Prairies, Deserts, Mountains, Rivers, Mines, Cities, Indians, Trap-
pers, Pioneers, and Great Natural Curiosities of the New States
and Territories; 1857-1867. Hartford, Connecticut (American
Publishing Company), 1867. Account written of a trip to Calir
fornia by means of the Butterfield Overland Stage, commencing
on August 15, 1859: pp- 233-234, October 2, 1859, "Beyond Camp
Stockton-a military post of 3 or 4 edifices with pearly misty moun-
tains in the background-we reached the well-trodden mail road
from San Antonio to El Paso"; p. 234, valley (Limpia Canyon ? )
where "Apaches often stole the stock of the San Antonio mails."
The Texas Almanac for 1859: With Statistics, Historical and
Biographical Sketches, Etc. Relating to Texas. Galveston (A. H.
Belo and Company), 1858. Information on the overland mail
route between San Antonio, Texas, and San Diego, California,
taken from report to the Post Office Department: pp. 140-145,
"Report to the Post Office Department"; pp. 145-146, "Climatico209
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