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Drawn by William H. Hilton. Courtesy Huntington Library
Hilton was traveling through Arizona on a Butterfield stage wagon, October 3-5, when
he came across San Antonio and San Diego Mail Line passengers sleeping along the trail.
Phocion R. Way wrote: "Camped last night about 10 miles this side of San Pedro [River].
Hobbled our mules, stationed our guard, and retired to rest on the ground as usual."
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The original Hilton drawings are in the Huntington Library collection, but he left
no description for his drawins. In a conversation with Huntington Library Archivist
Alan Jutzi, it was determined that Hilton may have made his drawings from memory
sometime after his trip. The stage wagon shown gives few details to determine the
classification of the stage. His drawings of Butterfield stage wagons along the trail,
which show little detail, also look similar to the passenger wagon in this drawing.
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