Clark Foss started a stage line in Napa Valley, CA during the Civil War. It was a route with sharp turns and huge drop-offs, and “Old Foss” gained...
Off The Road Stage driver Clark Foss courted disaster…and got it.
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Civil War
Homesteaders, Heroines and Hell-Raisers
It was a century ago that American women were granted suffrage, but they had been proving their equality in the settlement of the West long before.
Disease In The Frontier Army Far more soldiers died from or were treated for Cholera, dysentery, malaria, fevers and other afflictions than from combat wounds...
General William Tecumseh Sherman reported in 1869: The efficiency of the frontier army which averaged about 20,000 men in the period 1855-1875...