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Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Wells Fargo Messenger written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 498 pages
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Download or read book Wells Fargo Messenger written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William F. Strobridge
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Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Chips the Wells Fargo Messenger written by William F. Strobridge and published by . This book was released on 1992* with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William W. Walter
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ISBN 13 : 9781258045319
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (453 download)
Download or read book The Great Understander written by William W. Walter and published by . This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oliver Roberts De La Fontaine
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789121019
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)
Download or read book The Great Understander written by Oliver Roberts De La Fontaine and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true life story of Oliver Roberts de La Fontaine, who was the last of the Wells Fargo Shotgun express messengers. Taken from his notes and journals, the book tells of his days in the early West as a rancher, miner, saloon keeper, gambler, and lawman, including his adventures of coming into contact with stage robbers and other lawless persons in California and Nevada. Later in life, Roberts de la Fontaine came to “The Walter Method,” referring to its promulgator—and compiler of this book—William W. Walter as the “Great Understander.” “In arranging and compiling this true-life story, especial care has been taken to preserve the original wording of the narrative. No attempt has been made to embellish, enlarge or exaggerate the many thrilling experiences related by Mr. de La Fontaine. On the contrary, it is known to me that many of the experiences were far more dangerous and thrilling than explained in the diary, but Mr. de La Fontaine was as modest and good as he was brave and fearless.”
Author : Philip L. Fradkin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 074322762X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Stagecoach written by Philip L. Fradkin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-04-24 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweeping in scope, as revealing of an era as it is of a company, Stagecoach is the epic story of Wells Fargo and the American West, by award-winning writer Philip L. Fradkin. The trail of Wells Fargo runs through nearly every imaginable landscape and icon of frontier folklore: the California Gold Rush, the Pony Express, the transcontinental railroad, the Civil and Indian Wars. From the Great Plains to the Rockies to the Pacific Ocean, the company's operations embraced almost all social, cultural, and economic activities west of the Mississippi, following one of the greatest migrations in American history. Fortune seekers arriving in California after the discovery of gold in 1849 couldn't bring the necessities of home with them. So Wells Fargo express offices began providing basic services such as the exchange of gold dust for coin, short-term deposits and loans, and reliable delivery and receipt of letters, money, and goods to and from distant places. As its reputation for speed and dependability grew, the sight of a red-and-yellow Wells Fargo stagecoach racing across the prairie came to symbolize not only safe passage but faith in a nation's progress. In fact, for a time Wells Fargo was the most powerful and widespread institution in the American West, even surpassing the presence of the federal government. Stagecoach is a fascinating and rare combination of Western and business history. Along with its colorful association with the frontier -- Wyatt Earp, Black Bart, Buffalo Bill -- readers will discover that swiftness, security, and connectivity have been constants in Wells Fargo's history, and that these themes remain just as important today, 150 years later.
Author : Robert Joseph Chandler
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738531434
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Wells Fargo written by Robert Joseph Chandler and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those striking images of stagecoaches traversing rugged mountain terrain are no mere marketing gimmick, but part and parcel of Wells Fargo's storied past. When Henry Wells and William Fargo founded the company in 1852, the gold rush had already brought thousands of people to California and uncovered the largest amount of wealth then known to the world. Wells Fargo served a unique role as a banking, express or transporting, and mail-delivery agency. In 1857, the company helped establish the Overland Mail Company; in 1861, it operated the Pony Express; and in 1866, it put together a 3,000-mile network of stagecoaches running between California and Nebraska. Three decades later, Wells Fargo covered the nation over a web of iron rails. Miners and merchants, ranchers and farmers alike depended on Wells Fargo. The company always used the fastest means possible for its deliveries and fund transfers, whether by riverboat, ocean steamer, pony express, stagecoach, railroad, or the fastest method of all, the telegraph.
Author : Ralph Moody
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803283039
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Wells Fargo written by Ralph Moody and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the story of how Henry Wells and William Fargo went into express mail business in California and stopped the Post Office monopoly during the nineteenth century.
Author : Edward Hungerford
Publisher : New York, Random House [1949]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Wells Fargo written by Edward Hungerford and published by New York, Random House [1949]. This book was released on 1949 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The turbulent history of a great western enterprise that began during the gold strike of '49 operated its mails on the pony express, pioneered daring stagecoarch lines, and todya prospers in American banking and transportation.
Author : James B. Hume
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786456248
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Wells, Fargo & Co. Stagecoach and Train Robberies, 1870-1884 written by James B. Hume and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January 1, 1885, Wells, Fargo & Company's chief detective James B. Hume and special agent John N. Thacker published a report summarizing the company's losses during the previous 14 years. It listed 313 stagecoach robberies, 23 burglaries, and four train robberies but included little or no details of the events themselves, focusing instead on physical descriptions of the robbers. Widely circulated, the report was intended to assist law enforcement in identifying and apprehending the criminals believed still to present a danger to the company. The present volume revisits each crime, updating Hume and Thacker's original report with rich new details culled from local newspapers, personal diary entries, and court records.
Author : William F. Strobridge
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Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Chips Hodgkins written by William F. Strobridge and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Boessenecker
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250184908
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Shotguns and Stagecoaches written by John Boessenecker and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true stories of the Wild West heroes who guarded the iconic Wells Fargo stagecoaches and trains, battling colorful thieves, vicious highwaymen, and robbers armed with explosives. The phrase "riding shotgun" was no teenage game to the men who guarded stagecoaches and trains the Western frontier. Armed with sawed-off, double-barreled shotguns and an occasional revolver, these express messengers guarded valuable cargo through lawless terrain. They were tough, fighting men who risked their lives every time they climbed into the front boot of a Concord coach. Boessenecker introduces soon-to-be iconic personalities like "Chips" Hodgkins, an express rider known for his white mule and his ability to outrace his competitors, and Henry Johnson, the first Wells Fargo detective. Their lives weren't just one shootout after another—their encounters with desperadoes were won just as often with quick wits and memorized-by-heart knowledge of the land. The highway robbers also get their due. It wouldn't be a book about the Wild West without Black Bart, the most infamous stagecoach robber of all time, and Butch Cassidy's gang, America's most legendary train robbers. Through the Gold Rush and the early days of delivery with horses and saddlebags, to the heyday of stagecoaches and huge shipments of gold, and finally the rise of the railroad and the robbers who concocted unheard-of schemes to loot trains, Wells Fargo always had courageous men to protect its treasure. Their unforgettable bravery and ingenuity make this book a thrilling read.
Author : Julia David
Publisher : Field Runner Press
ISBN 13 : 9780999113493
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (134 download)
Download or read book The Messenger's Mischief written by Julia David and published by Field Runner Press. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 in the Wells Fargo West Series The Messenger's Mischief, a winning combination of humor, hope, her-oics, history, and heart-hugging romance. The plucky Miss Elaine Balderhoff's life is hanging by a thread as the Wells Fargo stage races across the Nevada desert. Adding to her terror, the Virginia City new schoolmarm isn't sure she'll get to her post in one piece. Bandits have attacked the stage, and the shotgun messenger sworn to protect the passengers is now the one in desperate need of help. And in all the ruckus, the unthinkable has happened. He's lost her cat. Finding her beloved Moses will certainly trump Mr. Roth's need to stay alive. Overly snoopy, Miss Balderhoff realizes when the Wells Fargo man isn't snarling from pain, he's quite handsome. More than Christian duty sparks her steps to service. Sawyer Roth could care less about a silly cat. Without a working shoulder, he's no good as a Wells Fargo shotgun messenger. Gutsy and kind, he'll give Miss Balderhoff that. But her sweet smile and warm touch will not persuade him into affections with a gal so odd and peculiar as her. And a shotgun messenger's not allowed to marry, so there is no future to entertain. Or is there? All my romances are PG, clean with a touch of pepper, and always a delightfully happy ending. JD
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Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Express Messenger written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 630 pages
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Download or read book The Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ella M. Cain
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787209415
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)
Download or read book The Story of Bodie written by Ella M. Cain and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1956, this is a history of California’s official state gold rush ghost town, which was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961, and in 1962 became Bodie State Historic Park. The account is written by Ella M. Cain, a native of Bodie, whose father-in-law James S. Cain and family owned much of the land the town is situated upon and had hired caretakers to protect and to maintain the town’s structures following its decline in 1914. “Bodie deserved and sustained its reputation of being the most lawless, the wildest and toughest mining camp the Far West has ever known.”—Ella M. Cain
Author : Norman H. Finkelstein
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613739982
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)
Download or read book The Capture of Black Bart written by Norman H. Finkelstein and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Bart was not the Old West's only stagecoach robber, but he was the most famous. To many people, he was a folk hero: a robber who didn't threaten or harm passengers. He was a bandit with a sense of humor who wrote poetry. In robbing at least 28 Wells Fargo stagecoaches across Northern California between 1875 and 1883, he never fired a shot or injured anyone. His gun, it turned out, was never loaded. Newspaper stories about the poet robber's exploits and about Jim Hume, the unyielding chief detective of Wells Fargo, became popular reading throughout the West. Black Bart seemed to enjoy the chase. During one robbery the driver told him, "They'll catch you one of these days." Bart answered, "Perhaps, but in the meantime, give my regards to J. B. Hume, will you?" For eight years, each new robbery—and each new story—made Hume even more determined to track him down.
