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Denver or Die!

by | Aug 1, 2008 | Features & Gunfights

The bloody saga of the Butterfield Overland Despatch.
David A. Butterfield was the right man, with the right idea, for the right place. A passenger and freight stage run from Atchison, Kansas, to Denver, Colorado, along the Smoky Hill Trail would certainly shorten the journey across the plains. Yet the Butterfield Overland Despatch Express (BOD) was doomed from the start. Attacks from Cheyenne and Arapaho along the route ma


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