Stagecoach Stations

Stagecoach Stations on the old Butterfield Overland Mail that ran from Tipton, Missouri to San Francisco between 1858 and 1861 left a lot to be desired. Passengers were appalled by the dirt and squalor that greeted them at the station. Built of adobe with floors "much like the ground outside” one wrote, “except not so clean" and interiors black with flies, there was little to attract the discriminating passenger. Meals were worse: tough beef or pork fried in a grime-blackened skillet, coarse