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Rocking Coach Adventures

by | Aug 1, 2008 | Features & Gunfights

Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Butterfield Overland Trail.
A quintessential “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” innovator who had little formal education and was himself a mere stagecoach driver would go on to lead the charge of our nation’s first transcontinental stage line 150 years ago. His new way of travel in the southwest took people, correspondence and freight in a short time from the populated area


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