Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage: A Woman''s Unique Experience During Thirty Years of Path Finding and Pioneering From the Missouri to the Pacific and From Alaska to Mexico (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage: A Woman''s Unique Experience During Thirty Years of Path Finding and Pioneering From the Missouri to the Pacific and From Alaska to Mexico<br><br>In the pages of this volume I have endeavored to give a picture of the Old West to tell of the efforts which a Westward marching population made to establish homes on the border line of civilization and beyond enduring hardships and priva tions with the courage of heroes. I have tried to restore the picturesque condition of what was the great homeless frontier of our Western country and to trace its development.<br><br>The narrative covers nearly every highway of the country between the Missouri River and the Pacific Ocean and from the British lands to Mexico. The old Concord stage-coach with its swinging thoroughbrace and the covered dead X wagon were the Pullman cars for the overland traveller and highway meals were served from the wagon box or at a wayside cabin that was frequently more than half a stable.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.