Expressmen (KIVAR) - Hardcover

Nevin, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809414864 ISBN 13: 9780809414864

Verlag: Time Life Education, 1974

Inhaltsangabe

This wonderful leather-bound series from Time-Life takes the reader back to The Old West. With color illustrations and plenty of black and white photos. When President James Buchanan predicted in 1858 that the country would someday be bound east and west "by a chain of Americans which can never be broken," the links were already being forged by an army of entrepreneurs known as the Expressmen. Their ght and stagecoach services moved Eastern goods westward, Western ones eastward, and shuttled people, money and mail both ways. By 1860, Pony Express riders were relaying mail across more than half the country in the amazingly brief time of 10 days. Such labors, celebrated here and on the following pages in paintings by Western artists, were eventually to be supplanted by the railroads and the telegraph. But until then. the Expressmen persisted as though the fate of a fledgling civilization rested in their hands - and it did.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Time Life Education
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1974
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0809414864
• ISBN 13: 9780809414864
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
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