GENERAL INDEX

 

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619

 

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Fort Bridger:   German farmer, an honest 560
  --an important stage station 475 German emperor in old coach                                     61
  --description of, by General Greene 476 Getts, Sam. V., stage-driver xi, 249, 272,
Fort Chadbourne 14 294, 295
Fort Cottonwood. 342 Gibson, Thomas 172
Fort Crawford, Wisconsin 461 Gilbert John, stage-diver 272
Fort Crittenden 607 Gilchrist, Judge C. K. xi
Fort Fillmore 10 Gillespie, W. A 76, 564
Fort Halleck 311, 587 Gilmer, John T., stage-driver 272
Fort Harker, the cars arrive at 143   --sketch of 470, 471
Fort Kearney

 

 

 

 19, 23, 39, 45, 52, 113, Gilmer, Salisbury & Co 291
125, 127, 128, 133, 134, 163, 179, Gilpin and Clear Creek counties, Colo., 526
 180, 185, 240, 310, 503, 507, 568 Gilpin, Wm., territorial governor 161, 259
  --first sod building at 65 Gilson, Jim, pony express rider 131
  --first telegraph at 117 Gilson, Sam, pony express rider 131
  --roads united at 151 "Give us the latest war news" 503
  --established in 1849 204 Glick, Geo. W. xi, 412
  --stage station in 1863 244 Globe-Democrat, St. Louis x
  --two views of 205, 234 Godfrey, of Godfrey's ranch 80
  --article by M. H. Sydenham 235-237 Godfrey's ranch 249
  --post office and post buildings 241   --christened "Fort Wicked" 358
  --reached by Col. P. B. Plumb 585   --stopping sixteen hours at 384
Fort Laramie 1, 2, 9, 113, 173, Gold bars, sent through the mails 52
179, 242, 355, 587 Gold discoveries of 1848 113
Fort Leavenworth 113   --the Pike's Peak district 149
  --starting point of military road 191 --in western Kansas.   151, 156, 307
  --1700 soldiers discharged, in 1848 448 Golden Gate 119
Fort Lupton 225 Golden, Tom 150
Fort McPherson 310 Goldrick, O. J., portrait of 228
  --sketch of 498 Goodwin, Mark, stage driver 272
  --base of operations in 1869 113 Gould, Jim a resourceful druggist 579
Fort Morgan 361 Government mule freezes 343
Fort Pierre 27 Grady's 398
Fort Riley 155, 393, 398 Grain, cost of, on the "Overland". 54, 74
Fort Sedgwick 220, 310, 376   --for pony express stock 118
  --depot of military supplies 342 Granada 113, 125
Fort St. John 472 Grand Island railroad 414
Fort Union 5, 10 Grannell Springs 398
Fortifications made of bags of mail 334 Grant, Col. Fred. D. 101
Fortune, Thomas L. steam wagon 430 Grant, Gen. U. S., visits Denver 171
Fossil Creek 398 Grasshopper Falls 393
Foster, John, stage driver 272, 574 Grasshoppers, myriads of 337
Fourth of July, discourse 510 Graves, James H., stage-driver xi, 272
  --celebrated by Col. J. C. Fremont 498 Graybacks, how got rid of 340
  --first celebration at Liberty Farm 606 Gray, James, rock-ribbed Democrat 531
  --Grant's dinner in Vicksburg 503 Grayson, Ray, stage-driver 200, 272, 563
Fox, Balaam, stage driver 272, 299, 300 Great American Desert 17, 119, 456
France, Charles B. 76 Great divide storm on summit of 329
Frank Leslie's Newspaper x "Great Father," at Washington 342
Frazer, Frank, stage driver 272 Great Salt Lake  475
Frazier, N. F., stage driver 407 Great Salt Lake mail 39, 40
Freedom's Champion 409 Great Slave Lake 28
"Freedom," post at state line 600 Greeley, Colo. 319, 323
Freeman, Leigh R., Frontier Index 262 Greeley, Horace, x, 27, 40, 54, 154, 277, 424
Freight-rates from Atchison to Denver, 303   --overland journey by  156
Fremont, Col. J. C. 3, 18, 21, 27, 155, 225, 517   --telegram to Dana 602
--celebrates the Fourth of July 498    --at Salt Lake 605
Fremont's Orchard 52, 224   --series of letters of 611
Fremont Springs 113 Greeley colony 320, 323
French, George, stage-driver 272 Greeley Tribune 352
Frenchman's creek 354 Greeley, land in vicinity of 348
Frey Johnnie, pony rider, 109, 125, 131, 132 Greeley's advice 149
"Friday," Arapahoe chief 347 Gregory gold diggings 151
"Frogtown" 197 Green, Nehemiah 414
Frost, Robert, Stage-driver 272 Green river 475
Fuller, Frank, acting governor of Utah, 137 Greene, Albert R. 37
Fuller, L., stage-driver 272 Greene, Gen. F. V. 445, 476
Funeral on the plains 547 Greenup, Bill, stage-driver 272
    Griffin, Bob 574
Galbraith, J. S. 303 Grimes, "Curley" 59, 60
Gallagher, Billy 574 Guard, a joke played on 334
Gamblers and preacher 596 Guittard's 113, 127, 197, 519, 520, 521
Game, wild, abundance of 87   --pictures of station 196, 265
Garfield, General 593 Guittard, George 517
Gaylord, William F., messenger 80 Guittard, Joseph 198
General Carr at Fort McPherson 501 Guittard, Xavier xi, 198
General Grant in Vicksburg 503 Gunnison country, first railroad 175
Gentry, Jim, pony rider 131    
Georgetown 181 Hackley, Gustavus R. 547
Georgetown Miner 347 Hale, David 105

 


 


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Hall, Bob, stage-driver 272 Holladay Ben.:  
Hall, Frank x   --losses sustained by 360
Hall, Jas., stage-driver 407   --checkmates opposition 405, 406
Hall, Robert, stage-driver 407   --biographical sketch of 439
Hallett, Samuel, begins U. P. railway, 600   --portrait of 441
Halsey, W. L. 77   --fast trip, Salt Lake to Atchison 443
Hamilton, Sam., pony express rider 131   --sketch of, by John Doniphan 444-447
Hammey, Peter, stage-driver 272   --sketch of, by R. M. Johnson 451
Ham's Fork telegraph office 135   --incidents of his life 449-452
"Hangtown," early name Placerville 589   --held up by road-agents 558, 559
Hainey, Dick 574   --awarded contract for carrying the mails, Salt Lake to Virginia City, 580
Hannibal & St. Joseph R. R. 39, 305, 413
"Happy Jack," stage-driver 272  --amount received for carrying mail 604
Hardtack and bacon, a requisition for, 378 Holladay, Mrs. B. 452
Hardy, Alex. 556 Holladay, James H. 443
Harney, Thomas, stage-driver 407 Holladay, Jesse 443, 452
Harper, Abe, stage-driver 407 Holladay, Joseph 443, 448
Harper's Magazine x, 32, 314 Holladay Wm. 443
Harper's Weekly 314 Holladay O. M. & E. Company 20, 48
Harrison Bros., freighters 303   --early advertisement of 402
Haslem, Robert ("Pony Bob") 130, 131   --limiting amount of baggage 403 
Hawk, Jake, stage-driver 272, 556 Hollenberg, George H. 113, 128, 519
Hawley, Russ, stage-driver 272 Holliday, Al., stage-driver 201, 272
Hay, cost of 74, 327 Holliday, C. K. 418, 602
Haymaker, Ed., stage-driver 272 Holliday, David 443
Haynes, Chas. C. xi, 272, 289, 293 Honey Lake 474
  --portraits of 290, 292 Hood, Rufus, stage-driver 272
  --stage-coach owned by 291 Hook, H. M. 203
Haynes, Chris., stage-driver 272 Hook's station 258
Hays, first municipal election at 144 Hopeville 236
Hays City 143 Hopkins, Frank, stage-driver 272
Hazard, John E., stage-driver 272 Hornaday, W. T. 29
Hazen, W. B., visits Denver 168 Home, Wm., freighter 303
Head, Willard, stage-driver 272 Home of the buffalo 27
Hedinger's Lake 398 Horses, number on the Overland 74
"Heenan," stage-driver 273 Horton Judge Albert H. xi, 317, 393
Hensel, Levi xi, 132 Horton, Kan 469
Henshaw Creek 398 Hotchkiss, stage-driver 407
"Heroes of the Plains" x Houx, B. F., freighter 335
Herrick, Col. Thos. P., editor 475 Houx, Mrs. B. F. 518
Heth, Capt. Harry 239 Howard, General 593
Heth, John 236, 237, 239 Howe, ---- 548
Heth, Dyer & Co. 237 Howe, Geo. W. 303
Hetherington, Wm. 424

Howell, Amos, freighter

303
Hickok, James B. 144, 145, 272 Hudnet, William, messenger 80
Hickory Point battle-field 414 Huff, Alonzo, stage-driver xi, 272
Hickory Point, Kan 155 Hughes, Ed. C. 76
Hicks' Station 398 Hughes family, of Virginia 448
Higby, Lewis 431 Hughes John 467
Highland, Kan. 475 Hughs, John & Co., stage men 180
Highwayman, noted 59, 60 Hughes, Andrew S. xi, 447
Hill, Gail 60
--a Pioneer in service of the
overland stage line; engages
 with the C. O. C. & P. P.; his
first lesson in express and
stage business in the Denver
office; succeeds to the desk
of Henry Carlyle; is "routed
out" by his father and sent
back East to college; later
returns to the west and
on the plains
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

466
Hill, Lew M., stage-driver 272, 297, 574  
Hills, L. S. xi
Hinckley & Co., stage men 180
Hinton, Richard J. 409
"History of Colorado" x
"History of Denver" x
"History of Utah" x
Hitchcock, P. W. 260
Hitt, Isaac R. xi
Hockaday, Burr & Co. 303   --was assistant agent of the stage company at Atchison;
joins parties in purchasing the 
remnant of staging in Colorado;
is made early general Passen-
ger and ticket agent of the
D. S. P. & P. R. R.; is appointed
general Passenger and ticket
agent of the D. & R. G. R. R.; is
later advanced to traffic
manager 		467
Hockaday, John M. 446
  --mail contractor 2
Hodge, Bob., stage-driver 269, 272
Hogan, pony express rider 127, 131
Hogan, station on B. O. D. route 398
Holbert, Charles, city marshal 412
Holbrook, Ed., stage-driver 272, 407
Hold-ups, lucky escape from 580
Holladay, Dr. Andrew 452
Holladay, Andrew S. 443 Hughes, Gen. Bela M., 3, 43, 51, 56, 93, 99, 165, 317, 401, 436, 446
Holladay, Ben vi, 23, 47, 48, 49, 240, 243, 448, 570, 575, 596
  --was prominently associated
with the stage line; becomes
president and general counsel
for the C. O. C. & P. P. Ex. Co.; 
becomes general counsel for
O. S. Line, owned by Ben.
Holladay, and later purchased
by Wells, Fargo & Co.
458
  --contract for carrying mails 50
  --controls C.O.C. & P.P. Ex. Co 51
  --quick time on the  "Overland" 53
  --at head of overland stage five years, 55
  --gets the Smoky Hill route 73
  --connection with overland lines 99

 


 


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Hughes, Gen. Bela M.   Johnson, R. M. xi
  --elected first president and general counsel of the Denver Pacific railway; also for the Denver & South Park railroad; member of last Colorado territorial legislature; incidents of early life 460 Jones, John S. 157
Jones "Ranger" 252
Jones, Russell & Co. 65, 153, 159, 179
  --Pike's Peak stage line 263
    --Pike's Peak road 302
Jones & Cartwright 420
  --Portrait of 459 Jules a thief and scoundrel 217
  --a good shot 591 Julesburg 45, 113, 127, 128, 498
Hughes, Joe, messenger 80   --important point 65
Hulbert, Geo., stage-driver 200, 272   --called Upper California Crossing 70
Humboldt river 113   --wood from Cottonwood Springs 94
Humphrey & Hibbard 289   --Pacific telegraph line at 219
Hunley, J. E. 572, 574   --rope ferry at 219, 220
Hunter, Frank 572, 574   --destruction of, by Indians 360
Hunter, Jim 574   --founded by C. O. C. & P. P. Ex. Co. 376
Hunting a location 370   --the site a scene of desolation 376
Huntington, Let., pony rider 131 Junction City, Kan. 155, 398
Hutchinson, Capt. Perry 529   --starting point for overland mail 55
      --terminus of Kansas Pacific railway 165
Idaho City mines 471   --telegraph office at 389
Idaho Springs 181 Junction City Union xi
Imposter, a first class 578    
Independence, Mo. 5 Kansas City, Mo, 5, 6, 54
Indianola, Kan. 394 Kansas City newspapers xi
  --stage station at 155 Kansas-Nebraska act 526
Indian Nation 132 Kansas Pacific railway 142, 407
Indians 59, 115, 116, 122, 123 Kansas, part of Great American Desert 21
  --barbarities, wild rumors of 372 Kansas Stage Company 277, 290, 414
  --Blackfeet, at war on Platte 586 Kansas State Historical Society x, 4
  --boys shooting at a target 366 Keane, "Gassy," stage-driver 272
  --depredations 331 Kearney City, Neb. 50, 201, 207, 336, 243
  --fight in western Kansas 368 Kearney Herald, a few items in the 515
  --graves and burial ceremony 210 Kearney, Stephen Watts 445
  --incidents 387, 389, 400, 401, 407   --famous march under 345
  --interferes with overland traffic 500 Kearny, Phil 236
  --Kickapoo reserve, hold-up on 581 Keeler & Montgomery, stage men 131, 180
  --massacre 255, 256 Keetley, Jack, pony express rider 125
  --outbreaks on the Republican river 501 Keith, Maj. C. B., Indian agent 191
  --raid on Platte 287 Keller, Thomas, stage-driver 272
  --raids on the plains 353 Kelley, Eugene 404
  --Sioux war-dance 567 Kelley, Jay G., pony express rider 131
  --steal and run off stock 500 Kelly, ---- 304
  --telegraph seldom molested 137 Kelly's, or American Ranch 222, 223
  --traveling 214   --fight with Indians at 379
  --troubles along overland in 1864 255, 311 Kelly, William, stage-driver 272
  --two at Beauvais ranch 85 Kennedy, Edward, stage-driver 272
  --two good ones at American Ranch 379 Kennekuk 113, 469
  --war, premeditated 497   --"home" station on stage line 190
Indian Territory 116   --junction of roads 6
Ingalls, John J. 317 Kickapoo Indian agency 190
  --describes streets in Atchison 410 Kickapoo reservation 113
Insects, disagreeable 576, 577   --hold-up on 581
Iowa, Seventh Volunteer Cavalry 242 Kilburn, Ed., stage-driver 272
  --railway material shipped across 138 Kilburn, E. B., stage-driver 272
"Irish Tom," pony express rider 131   --death of 81, 249, 362
Irwin & McGraw 304 Kimball & Co., Mormon contractors, 2, 445
Island No. 10, evacuation of 473 Kimball, Heber C., Mormon apostle 278
"Issues of the Day," Lincoln, Atchison 410 Kimball, H. L., stage-driver 407
Ivans, Charles, stage-driver 272 Kimball, H. M., stage-driver 407
    Kimball, Wm. 278
Jackson diggings 150 Kincade, Mr. 77
Jackson George A. pans first gold 150 Kinkade, E. O., stage-driver 272
James, William, pony rider 130, 131 Kinney, John A., agent xi, 397
Janes Bishop E. S. 436 Kiowa Creek 398
Jefferson City, Mo. 472 Kiowa Indians 33, 255
Jefferson, Territory 157, 161 Kit Carson 353
Jenkins, D. C. 200 Kitchen, W. K. 397
Jenkins, Will D., pony rider xi, 131 Knox, Col. Thos. W. 231
  --letter from 132 Koester, Chas. F. xi, 532
Jennison, Col. C. R. 82 Koontz Bros., bankers 230
Jerome, Eli, stage-driver 272 Kuykendall, H. L. 572
Jerome, Sam'l O. 564    
Jessamine county, Kentucky 451 La Barge, Jos., steamboat captain 333
Jesse Ewing's ranch 364 Lake 407
John, David, stage-driver 272 Lame Johnny Creek 59
John Hockaday mail coach 263 Lancaster, Pa. 472
Johnson, Capt. Andrew 452 Land Owner, Chicago 260
Johnston, Gen. Albert Sidney 2, 57, 113,262, 263,308, 445, 462, 477, 607  Land of Zion 476
Lander, Gen. F. W. 262, 474, 475

 


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Lane, James H., elected U. S. senator 423 Louisiana Purchase 18
Langrishe, Jack, of Denver 170, 230 Louisville, Kan. 155, 416
Laporte station 224, 349 Loup Fork 125
  --name changed from Colona to 349 Lone Tree station, Neb 370
  --rapid decline of 350 Lowe, H. B., stage-driver 272, 277
  --Slade on the stage-coach at 350 Lowe, Howard 574
  --early history of 350 Lowe, "Old Man" 414, 416
  --a "home" station 350, 351 Lowe, Percival G., frontiersman x, 263
Laramie Crook station (Frogtown) 197 Lucas, Hank. stage-driver 272
Laramie Plains 359 Lynchburg, Va. 130
Latham, Senator, thanks Mormons 321    
Latham station, Colo. 52, 93, 224 McAfee, James, stage-driver 407
  --Some early history 319 McCall J. G., pony express rider 131
  --Named after Senator Latham 320 McCandless gang of outlaws 129, 148
  --Junction of stage routes 321 McCausland, A. J. 284
  --Branch line from, to Denver 321, 323 McChesney, John W. xi
  --Great flood in South Platte at 324 McClelland, William, messenger 80, 466
  --Altitude 4000 feet 328 McClelland, W. C. 558
  --Mail office an arsenal  333 McClelland & Spotswood 570
  --Great excitement at 333 McClosky, James 517
  --Military company organized at 333 McCreary, Oscar 574
  --Model eating-house 337 McCune Kan. 353
  --Arrival of delayed mail 341 McCutcheon, Dave, driver 272, 325, 326
 --A battery stationed at 342
McDonald, Jas., rider, driver,
 		 128, 131, 272
  --During Indian excitement 346 McDougall, senator from California 321
  --Stage route changed 348 McGaa, Jack, a son born to 170
  --In early days 588 McGraw, W. M. F., mail contractor 2, 445
Latter-day saints 191 McIlvain, W. S., agent 76, 322, 548
Lawson, L. M. 447 McIlvain, Mrs. W. S. 335
Lawrence Jeffersonian xi McKee, D. H., stage-driver 272
Leavenworth newspapers xi McMakin, A. C. xi, 310
Leav. & P. P. Ex 19, 27, 153, 158, 163, 188 McMannys, Pete, stage-driver 272
LeCompton constitution, election day 519 McMaster, John B. 594
Lee county, Virginia 526 McNasser, Col. James 232
Lehmer, Frank E. telegraph operator 134 McNaughton, Jim, pony rider 131
Lemmon, Jim 201 McNeil, Arch, stage-driver 272
Letson, Frank H. 469 Magic city of the plains 152
Letson, Wm. W., messenger xi, 80, 467, 469 Magill, James S., of Marysville xi, 528
Letter mail by Pony express 117 Magnetic telegraph 119
Lewis and Clarke 18, 27 Mahin, Rev. Milton, of Atchison 411
Lewis, Doctor 185 Mail-bags rifled by Indians 362
Lewis, E. 80 Mail, Denver's early Eastern 179
Liberty Farm 113, 128 Mail, forty-one sacks sent east 341
  --celebration of Fourth of July at 606 Mail robbery at Whisky Run 563
  --Indian butcheries at 353 Mail and Breeze, quoted 36
  --Indian massacre at 255 Manhattan, Kan 155
  --abandoned 256 Majors, Alexander x, 106, 124, 163
Lice, as against fleas 604   --memorial in Colorado capitol  158
Liebman, Mr. 59   --sketch of his life 455-458
Likins, W. R., agent 466 Maloney, Dan., stage-driver 407
Limestone, branch of the 302 Manville, Charles, stage-driver 272, 298
Lincoln, Abraham 111, 424 Marsh, Roy D. x
  --congratulations by telegraph 137 Marshall county, Kansas 517
  --first visit to Kansas 410   --court-houses 518
  --inaugural speech 117 Marshall, Gen. Frank J. 199, 518, 526, 534
  --saluted by acting governor of Utah 137 Marshall, Mrs. Mary 518
Lincoln, Kan. 195 Marshall Pass 101
Little, E. C., describes encounter 147 Martin, Bob, rider and driver 131, 272, 284
Little Blue river 23, 113, 134 Martin, J. A., governor 189 409, 412, 428
  --map of "The Narrows" 364 Marysville, Kan. 28, 113, 198, 323
Little Rock, Ark. 10   --first train from St. Joseph 414
"Little Yank," pony express rider 127, 131   --named after Mrs. Mary Marshall 517
Little & Hanks., mail contractors 1, 6   --in early days 519
Living Springs station 135, 382   --Holladay has a grudge against 520
Lloyd, George M.  76, 80, 471   --difficulty in getting early mail 520
Lockwood, Alfred 466   --Gen. F. J. Marshall's residence 520
Locomotives, first ones brought West 413   --ferry-boat on the Blue 521
Lodge Pole creek 113, 264, 350   --authorities and stage men clash 523
Log Chain station 113, 193 Massasoit House, Atchison 408, 424, 513
London 124 Massey, Dave, stage-driver 272
Lone Tree station  202, 256 May, Boone 60
Long, Major 18, 27 May, Colonel 240
Long, Maj. Stephen H. 225, 517 Mayfield, John N., Messenger 80
Long's Peak, mentioned 162 Maynadier's treaty, interpretation of 515
"Long Slim" (C. Lewis), stage-driver 274 Meals on the "Overland" 42, 87, 95
Lookout  407 Mears, Otto 101
Loomis, Abner 80 Meeker, N. C., of the Greeley Tribune 352
Los Angeles 15 Meeting an ugly looking enemy 253
Lost in a blizzard 316 Meinhart, E. M., stage-driver 272
Louisa Springs 398 Memphis, Tenn. 10, 51

 


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