The Cheyenne and Black Hills Stage and Express Routes (Abridged, Annotated)
Language: English
Published by Independently Published, 2016
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- Title
- The Cheyenne and Black Hills Stage and Express Routes (Abridged, Annotated)
- Author
- Spring, Agnes Wright
- Publisher
- Independently Published
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1519043473
- ISBN 13
- 9781519043474
- Item weight
- 1 pound
From blizzards and washouts to ambushes and hold‑ups, drivers and travelers battled brutal weather, treacherous roads, and a steady gauntlet of “road agents” intent on stopping the coaches at gunpoint. Along the way, Spring captures the humor, hardship, and sheer nerve it took to keep the stages rolling between Wyoming, Montana, and the Dakotas during the Black Hills gold boom.
- Authentic frontier history – Based on meticulous research by Agnes Wright Spring, a respected Western scholar and former State Historian, this book explores a crucial but often overlooked transportation network of the 1870s West.
- Action that really happened – Hold‑ups, shoot‑outs, and desperate dashes through storms are drawn from first‑hand accounts and contemporary records, not Hollywood scripts.
- Key players of the Black Hills boom – Encounter stage drivers, company men, prospectors, soldiers, and road agents whose lives intersected along the Cheyenne–Black Hills routes.
- Famous names on the trail – Features appearances by Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hickok, General George Crook, George Armstrong Custer, Judge William L. Kuykendall, Lonesome Charley Reynolds, and other legendary figures of frontier history.
- A vivid sense of place – Follow the coaches from army posts and cow towns to boom‑camp streets, getting a ground‑level view of Wyoming, the Dakotas, and the Black Hills during the rush years.
- Essential reading for Western buffs – Ideal for fans of stagecoach history, transportation in the Old West, the Black Hills gold rush, and anyone who enjoys narrative history that reads like an adventure novel.
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