Roads and highways, from the Appian Way to Route 66, have been romanticized and mythologized through the eras, celebrated as both feats of engineering as well as pathways for national triumph and success. The construction, operation and suspension of the first transcontinental mail delivery service is the subject of Glen Sample Ely’s The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail, 1858-1861 (University of Oklahoma Press, $34.95). Based on 25 years of research, the author’s comprehensiv


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