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Early Transportation
Click image to enlarge A Butterfield Overland Mail Co. celerity wagon from an 1858 drawing by William Hayes Hilton. Wild mules were often used and were a constant problem. This style of stage, known as a stage wagon, was used from Los Angeles to Fort Smith, Ark. From the Huntington Library and used in "A Ride on a Butterfield Stagecoach" in "The Butterfield Trail and Overland Mail Company in Arizona, 1858-1861" by Gerald T. Ahnert, 2011. Read: Construction of the Overland Mail Co. Stage Line in California by Gerald T. Ahnert, 2014.
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Butterfield's Overland Mail Stations, SCV & Environs
Read: Overland Mail Co. Stage Line in California
Backgrounder: Express Companies & Staging in California
Ripley: San Fernando (Newhall) Pass Part 11
Jackass Mail, 1857/61
Timetable, Southern Route Through Tejon 1858
Butterfield Coach 1858
Butterfield Celerity Wagon 1858
Butterfield Wagon 1861
Mud Wagon x4
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