Category: Butterfield

• Butterfield Shakespeare Ghost Town southwest history

  Part II – The Fourth Division: Barney’s Station and Leach’s Tank

  The Fourth Division  For administrative and logistic purposes Butterfield broke his route up into nine Divisions: .San Francisco –  Los Angeles .Los Angeles – Fort Yuma .Fort Yuma – Tucson .Tucson – Franklin .Franklin – Fort Chadbourne .Fort Chadbourne – Colbert’s Ferry .Colbert’s Ferry – Fort Smith .Fort Smith –…

  October 25, 2023
• Butterfield Shakespeare Ghost Town southwest history Wagon Roads & Mail Rotes

  CHAPTER 14, Part I – Route No. 12578 – Butterfield and the Overland Mail Company 

  Introduction Those Executive Documents of the First Session, Thirty-Fifth Congress which carried the list of bidders on Route No. 8076 also carried a list of the names of those who had bid on Route No. 12578 – the Overland Mail-Route To California – from St. Louis, Missouri, and Memphis, Tennessee…

  October 17, 2023