Austerman, Wayne R.  1948- <br/><br/>
Sharps rifles and Spanish mules :  the San Antonio--El Paso mail, 1851-1881 / 
by Wayne R. Austerman. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - College Station :  Texas A & M University Press,  �1985. 
 - 1 online resource (x, 367 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :  illustrations, maps, portraits 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-355) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/>Use copy 
<br/><br/> History of stage coach lines that served South Texas during the 19th Century. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>[Place of publication not identified] : <br/>HathiTrust Digital Library, <br/>2010. 
<br/><br/><br/>Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. <br/>http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0585174830 9780585174839 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1800-1899 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Postal service--History--Texas--19th century.<br/>Coaching (Transportation)--History--Texas--19th century.<br/>LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Communication Studies.<br/>Coaching (Transportation)<br/>Postal service.<br/>Business & Economics.<br/>Transportation Economics.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>San Antonio (Tex.)--History.<br/>El Paso (Tex.)--History.<br/>Texas.<br/>Texas--El Paso.<br/>Texas--San Antonio.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HE6376.A1  / T417 1985eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>383/.49764