Title:
[Overland mail from Port Smith, Arkansas, for the Pacific Coast]
Creator/Contributor:
[Unknown]
Date:
1858
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0474--A
Format:
print on paper: engraving, hand colored
18.9 x 27.1 cm.
Content/Description:
Coach drawn by two pairs of horses passes through town as groups of people watch. Sign on coach reads: Overland Mail Company.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC): The overland mail, the start from Port Smith, Arkansas, for the Pacific Coast, first coach driven by John
Butterfield, Jr.
Subjects:
Animals;
Horses;
Overland journeys to the Pacific;
Vehicles;
West (U.S.);
Westward movement
Genre/Format:
Engravings, color;
Illustrations