GENERAL INDEX

 

The Overland Stage to California

615

 

 

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Abell, Peter T. 304, 418 Atchison 19, 23, 63, 117, 134, 303, 304, 409
"A Busy Life" x   --a stage center 414
Abbot-Downing Company 593   --visited by Horace Greeley 410
  --coach builders 49   --starting point for overland mail 39
  --president of the 61   --freight shipped from, 1865 418
  --coaches made by the 153   --starting point for overland traffic 44
  --sketch of 540   --table of distances to Placerville 102
  --notice of beginning business 541   --time coaches departed from 69
  --card of 543 Atchison Union 409
Abilene 398 Atchison & Fort Union railway 417
Ackley, Burt, stage-driver 272 Atchison & Pike's Peak railroad 415
Acknowledgments  ix, x, xi   --first engine for 422
Adams, Annie G., teacher 191   --first passenger-train on 422
Adams Express Company 395   --first time-card of 422
Adams, F. G. 431 A. T. & S. F. railroad, ground broken 100
  --Indian agent 191   --early time-card of 602
  --mentioned 802 Atkinson, Mrs. (see Eubanks) 356
Adams, Henry J., of Leavenworth 191 Atlantic and Pacific joined 141
Adams, Joseph H., stage-driver 272 Aubrey, F. X., quick ride 54
Adams; Maj. N. A. 586   --killed in New Mexico 425
Adair county, Missouri 472 "Autobiography of 'Buffalo Bill'" x
Addoms, Henry, messenger 80 Auraria, camp on Cherry creek 150, 152
Addoms, Will, freighter 303 Ayers, Dug 570
Agassiz, Louis 47, 168 Ayers, J. M., driver 407
Agents, names of 76    
Agitation for removal of capital 258 Babcock, George, stage-driver 272
Albuquerque, N. M. 9, 19 Baker, Frank, stage-driver 272
Alderson, J. C., messenger 400 Baker, J. F. 448
Alexander, A. W. 571 Baker, Joe., stage-driver 272
Alexis, Grand Duke 33 Baker, William, stage-driver 272
Alkali station 113 Baltimore 118
  --five coaches leave, in a train 375 Bancroft. H. H. x
Allen, Oscar, stage-driver 272 Bank of Enid, Okla 469
All Hazard company 412 Bannock Indians 122
Alta California, quoted 13, 14 Bannock, fabulous gold discoveries at 323
"Always room for one more" 512 Barbour, B. S., messenger 400
America City 302 Barlow & Sanderson 101, 297, 570, 573
American Express Company 395 Barney, A. H., president 167
American Farmer, quoted 31 Barney, D. N. 10
Amherst College 475 Barnett. Gene 60
Anderson, John, stage-driver 272 Barrett hotel, Marysville, Kan 527
Anderson, Martin, feet frozen 586 Bartholow, E. M 600
Andreas's History of Kansas x Bartholow, Theo xi
  --of Nebraska x Baughn, Melville, pony rider 125, 127
"An Overland Journey" x Baumer, Colonel, at Fort Laramie 355
Antelope 113   --hears story of Mrs. Eubanks 355
Antietam, news of battle 111 Baxter, L. P., stage-driver 272
Ant-hills on the plains 339 Beach, A. T., paymaster 472
Ants utilized on washing-days 340 Beach, Thos. F., paymaster 472
"Arkansas rangers" 125 Beatley. Jim, pony rider 127, 131, 132
"Arkansaw" -Lon Huff, stage-driver 274 Beauvais ranch ...... 85, 113, 179, 262, 263, 376
Armstrong, Chas.F. xi Beauvais, ---, biographical sketch of, 263
  --driver 407, 574 Beaver Creek station 128, 137
Arapahoe county, Kansas 152, 307 Belton Me 451
Arapahoe Indians 25, 33, 255 "Behold, how good," etc 511
  --a number of, lose their scalps 355 Benham, Alex., driver and agent 272, 471
Argonauts 113 Benham, William 80
Arizona 116, 473 Beni, Jules, who christened Julesburg, 213
Arizona City 15 Bennett, Maj. Abram, Indian agent 191
Army, Gen. A. S. Johnston's 113 Berry, Joseph, stage-driver 272
Arthur, President 593 Berthoud Pass 165, 401
Ash Hollow Crossing 262 Betts, J. H., stage-driver 407
  --troops defeat Brule Sioux 263 Betts, John, stage-driver 272
Ashley's expedition 475 "Beyond the Mississippi" x
  --discovered Great Salt Lake 604 Big Bend of Sandy 398
Ash Point 113, 125 Big Blue river, obstacle on the 523
Atchison Champion xi, 302, 317 Big Blue stage crossing 177, 517
Atchison Globe xi Big Creek 398, 407

 


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The Overland Stage to California

 

 

 

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Bigerstoff, Robert, stage-driver 407 Buffalo:  
"Big Muddy" 123   --bones of 36, 37
Big Sandy 72, 113, 127, 355, 511   --last wild herd seen 30
Big Thunder, Indian chief 355   --on island in Flathead lake 37
Bijou creek 342, 398   --robes and hides of 32
Bijou ranch, thawing out at 383   --team, seen in Atchison 427
Bilderback, Gabe, stage-driver 272   --tongues, dried 31
Billingsley, James, stage-driver 272   --wanton slaughter of 34
Bill of fare, California, in 1850 589 "Buffalo Bill" 33, 60, 123, 277
Bird, John C., freighter 303   --and Pawnee soldiers 501
Bisbee, W. H. 144 Buffalo creek 398
Bishop's ranch 81 Buffalo Gap 59
Bissell, Amos 467 Buffalo-gnats 577
Bitter Creek, some account of 550 "Buffalo Land" x
Blackburn, Dunk 59 Buffalo ranch 256
Black Canyon of the Gunnison 176 Buffalo Springs ranch 378
Black Hawk 181, 309, 417 Bullock John, stage-driver 407
Black Hills 168 Bull train leaving Atchison 421
  --stage line 61   --on the plains 311
Black's Fork 475 Burke, John M., stage-driver 272, 277
Blacksmithing, high prices 351 Burke, Thomas, stage-driver 272
Blair, E. K. 303 Burnett Gov. Peter H. 447
Blair, Frank P. 447 Burnett: John, rider and driver 131, 272
Blassingame 433 Burr conspiracy 460
Blizzard in Little Blue valley 319 Bushwackers 132
Blue Mound 398 Butcher, Capt. Eph 418
Blue Valley, Indian depredations 330 Butler, Rev. Pardee, adrift on raft 411
Bluffton 398   --mentioned 434
Bolmar, Carl P. ix Butler, Preston, messenger 80
Bolmar, C. P. ix Butter, over one dollar a pound 322
Boone, Daniel 28 Butterfield, D. A. 56, 391, 394, 395
Border ruffians 411   --presented with tablet by employees, 393
Boston 118   --visit to Denver 399
  --cost of a telegram to 136   --visits East to interest capital 396
"Boston", pony express rider 131   --ventures in the South 404
Boston Home Journal, article 552   --killed by employee 404
Boulder county, Colorado 526 Butterfield, John 10, 13, 19
Boulton, Wm., pony express rider 127, 131 Butterfield line (southern overland 39
Bowen, Tim, stage-driver 272 Butterfield Overland Despatch, 19, 48, 56
Bowers, Gus, stage-driver 272   --fast-freight line 390
Bowles, Samuel 54   --early advertisements of 392, 397
Box Elder 128   --first train sent out 398 
Boyd. E. D. 302    --list of stations on 398
Brackett, Colonel 477   --views of coach en route 400
Braden, John, stage-driver 272, 283   --suffers from Indian raids 400
Bradley, "Peg-legged" 59   --route abandoned 401
Brainard, Joe, stage-driver 272   --consolidated with O. S. line 402
Bray, E. P. 397   --freight abandoned on plains 403
Breastworks, using wagons for 369 Butterfield overland mail 116
Bridger, James H., pass named for:   Byers, Hon. W. N. xi, 228, 296
believed to have been the first white
man to sail on Great Salt Lake: a
member of General Ashley's expedition,
etc.		     --carries news of gold discovery 149
  --founder Rocky Mountain News 150
475, 476, 477, 604    
Cabeca, Alvar Nunez 17, 18
Bridgman, I. N. 303 Cabin, Gen. W. T. Sherman's 155
"Brigham", stage-driver 273 Cache la Poudre 150, 162, 320, 352
Brighton 163 "Calamity Jane" (Martha Canary) 60
Brink, James W. ("Dock"), 129, 131, 272 Calhoun county (Kan.) court-house 438
British squadron 124 California 113, 121
Bromley, James E. 106, 447 California Crossing 179
Bross, Lieutenant-governor 345 California bill of fare (1850) 589, 590
Brown Bros., freighters 230, 303 California Guards 14
Brown, James 284 California mail, used for breastworks 333
Brown, Hank, stage-driver 272, 556 Callahan, --- 430
Brown, Jesse 60 Calvert, Miss Notley Ann 452
Brown, John 411, 448, 429, 430 Calvert's Ferry 14
Brown, J. F. and J. S. xi Campbell. Jack, stage-driver 272
Brown, J. P., Atchison contractor 424 Campbell, John, stage-driver 407
Brown, Michael, stage-driver 407 Campbell, Thos. A., stage-driver 407
Brown, T. B. ix Camp Collins 311, 342
Brownsville, Neb 133 Camp Floyd 113, 461, 462
Bruce, Ed., stage-driver 272 Camp Wardwell 310, 380
Bryan, Wm. J. . 292 Canadian river 132
Bryon, Lieut., U. S. topo. engineers 264 Canary, Martha ("Calamity Jane") 60
Buchanan, James 13, 111 Cape Girardeau, Mo. 473
Buck, Giles B., freighter 303 Cape Horn, supplies shipped via 138
Bucklin, Jimmy, pony express rider 131 Capon, James messenger 80, 82
Buckskin Joe mining camp 181 Carlton, George, stage-driver 272
Buford, Bill 574 Carlisle 407
Buffalo 27, 113 Carlyle, Alexander 312

 


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Carlyle, Henry xi, 312, 359, 466 Cochran, Chas. F., senator 298
  --miraculous escape of 356 Cochran, W. A., stage driver xi, 272, 298
  --manager of freighting firm 358 Cock, Geo. E. 404
Carpenter, L. F. 284 Coe, Earl B. x
Carr, R. P., stage-driver 272 Coe, Phil., a frontier desperado 147
Carr, Wm. pony express rider 131 C. O. C. & P. P. Express 41, 414, 446
Carrigan, Wm., Pony express rider. 131   --bought by Holladay 70
Carrigan, Billy, stage-driver 272   --advertisement of 107
Carrington, Colonel 243   --express charges by 163
Carruth, A. G. ix   --dispatches carried by 172
Carson City 113,1121, 123 Cody, Col. W. F x, 33, 34, 131, 272, 572
  -- mail-pouches for 52, 588   --pony express rider 129
Carson, Frank, stage-driver 272   --commands a band of scouts 501
Carson, Kit 150, 456, 572   --Wild West, show 583
Carson river 130 Coffee, one dollar per pound 322
Carter, Judge W. A 77 Cold Springs tragedy 60
Castle Rock 407   --station and coaches 375
Castle Rock creek 398 Cole, A. S., messenger 400
Cates, Bill, pony express rider 128, 131 Coleclesser, Austin 574
Catholic Tribune, St. Joseph 447 Colfax, Hon. Schuyler 608
Cavalry, escorts the mail 342 College students 511
  --at O'Fallon's Bluffs 375 Collier, Shade, stage-driver 272
  --the Third Wisconsin 523 Collins, John, stage-driver 272
Centennial Exposition 347 Collins, Lieutenant 389
Centoria, name changed 236 Colona, first town in north Colorado 349
  --sod building at 241 Colorado 123, 135
Central California overland route, 22, 42   --last trip to Denver 382
Central City 181, 309   --first census taken of 161
Central Pacific R. R., building of, 138, 140   --early history of 161
Central Star of Empire newspaper, x, 258   --"100-days-ers"-- Captain Morgan 340
Century Magazine x   --pioneers, tribute to 175
Chalk Bluff 398, 407   --provisions scarce in 337
Challiss, L. C. 431   --staging in 101, 570 
Chamberlain, Rev. Mr. 566 Colorado Central railroad 181
Champion, the Atchison 598 Comanches' 123
Chapman's creek 398 Commerce on the Platte paralyzed 371
Chase, Gideon O, 409, 428 Commonwealth, Denver 231
Cheevers, Tom, stage-driver 272 Comstock, Bill, scout 354, 456
Cherokee City post-office 350 Comstock mines 51
Cherokee trail 92, 350 Comstock's ranch 364
Cherry Creek gold diggings 149, 151, 307 Concord stage-coaches 57, 514
  --great flood in 164    --history of 58
  --Cherry Creek Pioneer 172 Cone, John P. xi
Cherry Valley 398 Conkling, Roscoe, visits Denver 168
Cheyenne agency 354 Connell Creek 398
Cheyenne Indians 25, 33, 123, 236, 255 Connelley, Wm. E. viii, 451
Cheyenne and Sioux war 497 Cooke, Lieutenant Colonel 477
Cheyenne Wells 398 Cooke, Col. Philip St. George 607
Chicago 118, 130 Coon Creek 398
Chicago Times 1, 260 Corbett, Billy, stage-driver 272
Chimney Rock 113, 127, 587 Corn dodgers 416
China and England, war of 124 Cornforth boys, merchant 230
Chin-music, bombarding with string of, 514 Coronado 17, 18
Chivington, Col. J. M. 353 Cosmopolitan, The x
Choctaw Nation 14 Cottonwood Springs, 113, 127, 134, 208, 310
Chorponing, W. G. 40   --delayed mail and passengers leave, 374
Chorpening, George 607   --way pouch for 52
Cincinnati Commercial 156   --ludicrous scene at 89
Cincinnati Times 260   --logs hauled from 94
Clampitt, John M. x   --first building erected, etc. 499
Clardy, Joshua E. 528 Cottrill, W. H., superintendent 167
Clark, Ad., engineer on H. & St. J. R. R., 42 Council Bluffs 18
Clark, Charles, stage-driver 407 Council Grove 4
Clark, Geo. T. 399 Court-house Rock 113, 587
Clark, Jimmy, pony express rider, 128, 131 Craig, D., stage-driver 272, 407
Clark, John H. xi, 198, 264, 587 Craig station 207
Clark, Lenore ix Craig, Gen. James 361
Clark, P. B. 593 Crall, Jesse 431
Clark, Tom 597 Crane & Co xi
Clark, Gruber & Co., bankers 230 Crawford, D. C. 572
Clarke, Joe 144 Creighton, Edward 133, 473
Clarke, J. R., stage-driver 407 Creighton, Mr., agent 76
Clement, Stephen, messenger 80 Cripple Creek, early staging in
 		 571
Cleveland "Jayhawker" 411, 413 Crook, General 60
Cliff, Charles, pony express rider 131 Crockett, Davy 543
Cliff, Gus., pony express rider 131 "Cross-eyed John", stage-driver 273
Clinton House, Indianola 394 Cummings, Enoch xi, 272, 280, 523
Coast Stage Company 291   --in an Indian fight 367
Coburn, Paul 435 Curtis, Bob, stage-driver 272
Cochran, A. P. 298 Custer, Gen. Geo. A. 312

 


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Dahler, C. L. 76 Eaton 398
Dana, Charles A. 602 Eaton, Benj. H., pioneer at Greeley 324
Dances along the "Overland" 67 Eaton, Col. Isaac E. 359, 393, 395, 396
Daniel's Ranch 52, 201 Edwards, J. H. 601
Davis, C. Wood 600 "Echoes from the Rocky Mountains" x
Davis, M. B. 243 Egan, Major, Pony rider 131
Davis, Scott 59 Eggs, $1.50 per dozen 322
Davis, Wm. A. 565 Ellifrit, R. T., messenger 80
Deadwood, coach and mail 58, 59, 51 Ellis, J. K., pony rider 131
Decatur, "Commodore" Stephen 345 Elliott, L. R. xi
Deer 113 Ellsworth 134, 398
Delaware, steamboat 413 Elm Creek statiom 256
Denman, H. B. 428 El Paso, Tex. 10, 15, 51
"Denmark, something rotten in" 343 Emery, Charies N. xi
Dennison & Brown, Freighters 303   --driver and station keeper 272, 279, 280
Denver, Hon. James 150, 447 Emery, Corl, stage-driver 272
Denver, Colo. 23, 227, 309, 398, 456 Emery, Mrs. Mary xi
  --telegraph completed to 136 Emery, Robert, stage-driver 132, 272
  --express charges to 163   --saves a load of passengers 364
  --fare to, by stage 42, 50, 64   --eulogized as a silent hero 365
  --first stage to enter 163 Emery, Willis 144
  --first telegraph office 163 England and China war 124
  --first railway train to 166 Enos, Jim, stage-driver 272, 556
  --first Pullman car to 168 Equipment of overland route 74
  --bird's-eye view of in 1859 169 Estill, Col. J. M. 447
  --first Concord stage to 179 Eubanks, Joe, stage-driver 272, 353
  --era of staging in 180 Eubanks, Mrs., taken captive 353
  --H. O. M. and express office at 181 Eubanks's ranch 364
  --mail for 52, 382, 588 Evans, ---- 319
  --stage starts for Topeka 55 Evans, John 612
  --"cut-off" toll-road built 135, 380 Evans, William, stage driver 272
  --newspapers mentioned xi Everybody's Magazine, article 147
  -- "the gentleman from" 508 Exchange hotel, Atchison 410
  --unprecedented growth of 526 Experience with bronchos at Latham 266
Denver & Rio Grande railroad 175, 467 Expedition to shorten route 302
Denver, South Park & Pacific railway 467 Expedition to survey Smoky Hill route 395
Deposit, N. Y. 134 Express charges on the" Overland" 69
Deseret News, The x Express companies press Holladay 404
Desert, the Great American 17    
Des Moines river 461 Fabulous wealth, "Friday" tells of 348
Dewey, Ed 574 Facing a genuine blizzard 378
Diamond Springs 113 Fairplay, stage trip to 181
Diamonds, "Friday" tells of 348 Family returning to "the States" 257
Dickey, Dave, messenger 80 Fares on the "Overland" 64
Dickie, W. G. ix Fargo, Wm. G. 10
Dinman, David 284 Farrell, Ed 200
Dinsmore, Wm. B. 10 Farrell's ranch 127
"Dirty Woman's Ranch" 243 Faust, H. J., Pony rider 131
Distances, Atchison to Placerville 102 Feast "good enough for a king" 378
Divisions of the Overland route 79 Ferry House, hotel at Laporte 351
'Dobe buildings 221 Ficklin, Benj. F. 157, 159, 219
Dobytown 50, 201, 207, 243   --engaged for pony express 106
Doc. Billy, Indian chief 355   --appoints Slade division agent 216
Documents, Public, used to build roads 73 "Fiddler Jim," stage-driver 274
Dodge, G. M., Maj. Gen. 373 First daily mail on central route 264
Dogtown 203, 209, 240, 247 First Methodist Church at Marysville 520
Dolan, W. F. xi First newspaper at Fort Kearney 262
Doniphan, Colonel 443 First state legislature 423
Doniphan, Hon. John x, 77 First trip of Pony express 118
Doniphan, John, article by 447 "Fish Creek Bill," stage-driver 274
Doniphan's regiment 345 Fish, Ed., stage-driver 407
Douglas, James, stage-driver 272 Fisher, John, Pony rider 131
Douglas, Jim 201 Fisher, Rev. C. W., in Denver 170
Downard, Ed., stage-driver 272 Frankfort, KY 460
Downer 98, 407 Frank Leslie's Illustrated 314
Downie, M. M., stage-driver 272 Fleas, as against lice 604
Downing. L. jr. xi Flemming, O. J. 469
Doy, John 448 Flour high cost of 837
Drake, Frank, stage-driver 407 Flowers, Lieutenant 277
Dried-apple pies 97 Fogg, Wm. H. 404
Drivers on the "Overland" vi, 70, 88 Folsom 113
Dubois 398 Food supply diminishing 376
Dubois, Fred 291 Foote - see Beatley, Jim.  
Durant, vice-president of U. P. Rly 140 Forsha, Harry 574
"Dutch Henry," stage-driver 272 Forsha, John T., stage-driver 272
Dyche, Prof. L. L. 29 Forsythe's Creek 398
Dye, Gen. W. 448 Fort Belknap, Tex 14
    Fort Bridger 1, 2, 39, 52, 92, 113, 242, 588
Eastern newspapers on tissue paper 122   --telegraph office opened at 135
Eastin, Kan. 155   --stage route intersects old road 361

 


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