Sharps rifles and Spanish mules : the San Antonio--El Paso mail, 1851-1881 / by Wayne R. Austerman.
Material type: TextPublication details: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, �1985.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (x, 367 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraitsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0585174830
- 9780585174839
- Postal service -- Texas -- History -- 19th century
- Coaching (Transportation) -- Texas -- History -- 19th century
- San Antonio (Tex.) -- History
- El Paso (Tex.) -- History
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Communication Studies
- Coaching (Transportation)
- Postal service
- Texas
- Texas -- El Paso
- Texas -- San Antonio
- Business & Economics
- Transportation Economics
- 1800-1899
- 383/.49764 19
- HE6376.A1 T417 1985eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-355) and index.
History of stage coach lines that served South Texas during the 19th Century.
After the eagle screamed -- "Notice to travelers" -- A tangled weave -- "I'll be damned if I'll die!" -- "From no place through nothing to nowhere" -- Hard passages -- Omens and rivals -- The flame and the talons -- Thrones for the ravens -- Coopwood's try -- The brash reinsman -- The knives of winter -- "Charges against the service" -- Concord suffrage -- The savage recessional -- Chronology of the San Antonio-El Paso mail, 1850-1881.
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