Un avvincente e veritiera storia del pony express; o, incredibilmente il modo a ovest, e altri schizzi e gli incidenti di quei tempi di agitazione . ng fruste thanany uomo prima o da allora, salvare onlyBen Holladay. Tra lievito-vale la pena e a Denver, Majors aveva 1.000 muli e cinquanta pullman. Il firstof questi hoss-power Pullmansreached Denver Maggio 17, 1859, sixdays per la 665 miglia di viaggio. Hor-ace Greeley, Henry Villard, andAlbert D. Richardson erano passen-Gers. La Hockaday e linea Liggettstage da St. Joe al sale Lakehad (nel 1858) frittered venti-twodays nella sua semi-viaggi mensili.Major tagliare il 1200-m

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A thrilling and truthful history of the pony express; or, Blazing the westward way, and other sketches and incidents of those stirring times . ng whips thanany man before or since, save onlyBen Holladay. Between Leaven-worth and Denver, Majors had 1, 000 mules and fifty coaches. The firstof these hoss-power Pullmansreached Denver May 17, 1859, sixdays for the 665-mile journey. Hor-ace Greeley, Henry Villard, andAlbert D. Richardson were passen-gers. The Hockaday and Liggettstage line from St. Joe to Salt Lakehad (in 1858) frittered twenty-twodays in its semi-monthly trips.Majors cut the 1, 200-mile-run to tendays, with a coach each way daily. Thestage from Denver to Salt Lake hada run of over 600 miles without a sin-gle town, hamlet, or house on the way.By 1859 there were no less than sixmail routes to California (countingthe Panama steamer), but Ben Holla-day was king. No other one man, anywhere, has owned and rnanaged atransportation system at once so vastand so difficult. He had sixteenfirst-class passenger steamers plyingthe Pacific from San Francisco toOregon, Panama, Japan, and China.At the height of his Overland business. Governor of Colorado in Gold-Fevcr days WINNING THE WEST 21 he operated nearly 5, 000 miles ofdaily mail stages, with about 500coaches and express wagons, 500freight wagons, 5, 000 horses andmules, and a host of oxen. On the main line he used 2, 750horses and mules and 100 Concordcoaches. It cost $55, 000 for theharness; the feed bill was a milliona year. To equip and run this linefor the first twelve months cost$2, 425, 000. The Government paidHolladay a million dollars a year inmail contracts. In 1864. grain wasworth 25 cents a pound along the line, and hay up to $125 a ton. In one day, Dave Street contracted, at St. Louis, for seven Missouri River steamers toload with corn for the Overlandsarmy of mules and horses. Holladay, whose whole career readslike fiction, was the Overland Napo-leon for about five years, beginningin December, 1861. The Indian

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