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115. Lang, St. Louis, pp. 84-85; Bureau of the Census, Federal Census Population Schedules, Eighth Census (1860): New Mexico, Micro-copy No. 653, Roll No. 712, pp. 1-65 (hereafter cited as New MexicoCensus,1860). Inaddition,mostof Butterfield’smenwereintheirearlyormidtwenties.
116. Lang, St. Louis, p. 105. “Local” time was just that in most cases. Each town set its clocks at noon when the sun was overhead, or by sundial. This has created many problems for historians, especially in trying to decipher some of the telegraphic com- munications during the Civil War.
117. Ibid., p. 108.
118. Root and Connelley, Overland Stage, p. 13. It is not clear how Butterfield arrived at 23 days and four hours, but special agent Bailey should be believed, because he had no reason to bias the time and knew precisely when the stage left San Francisco and when the train arrived at St. Louis.
119. Ibid.
120. Hollon, “Great Days,” p. 211.
121. Martin, Yuma Crossing, p. 208. The informa-
tion surfaced anyway. According to Lang, St. Louis, pp. Ill, 121, the Daily Alta California, not to be outdone, had also quietly dispatched a reporter of its own, J. M. Farwell, a week earlier. His reports confirmed that the coaches used lamps to travel at nightandthat,atleastonsomeportionsofthetrail, Butterfield used outriders for safety.
122. WalterB.Lang,TheFirstOverlandMail— Butterfield Trail, San Francisco to Memphis, 1858- 1861, 2 Vols. (East Aurora, New York: Roycrofters, 1940), Vol. 2, p. 33 (hereafter cited as Lang, Mem-
phis).
123. Winfrey, “Overland Mail Trail,” p. 32.
124. James L. Haley, Apaches: A History and Cul-
ture Portrait (Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1981), p. 224; Edward Holland Spicer, Cycles of Conquest: The Impact of Spain, Mexico, and the United States on the Indians of the Southwest, 1533- 1960 (Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1962), p. 246 (hereafter cited as Spicer, Cycles).
125. RalphHedrickOgle,“FederalControlofthe Western Apaches, 1848- 1886,” New Mexico Histori- cal Review, Vol. 14 (Oct., 1939), pp. 346-352. This is probably either Charles F. Wallace or more likely William Wallace, whom Cochise would torture to death following the Bascom affair in 1861. However, in Tevis, Arizona, pp. 91-110, Tevis claims that he was in charge of the Apache Pass station during this
period.
126. Hollon, “Great Days,” p. 213.
127. Lang, Memphis, pp. 42-45. Tallack, in Lang,
St. Louis, p. 152, also noted that every passenger excepthimlostatleastonehatonthetrip.
128. Lang,Memphis,pp.85-86. However,Keith Humphries, “Trail of the Pioneers,” New Mexico,
Vol. 17 (Apr., 1939), p. 11, noted that the eastbound
ticket price was reduced to $150 within a short
period.
129. Winther, Western Express, p. 103.
130. Winfrey, “Overland Mail Trail,” p. 29.
131. Banning and Banning, Six Horses, p. 146;
Hollon, “Great Days,” p. 212. Use of the Overland name continues today by organizations such as the Overland Sheepskin Company.
132. Winfrey, “Overland Mail Trail,” p. 39.
133. Hattie M. Anderson, “Mining and Indian Fighting in Arizona and New Mexico, 1858-1861: Memoirs of Hank Smith,” The Panhandle — Plains Historical Review, Vol. 1 (1928), p. 93 (hereafter cited as Anderson, “Mining”).
134. Ibid.\ Sari Francisco Herald, November 20, 1860, p. 3 copying the Mesilla Times of November 8. Smith thought the incident took place in May. It is not entirely clear that both coaches belonged to Butterfield’s line and not Catlett’s or Giddings’, but theimplicationisthere. Arosterofemployeesfor each of the companies during this period would have beenrequiredtoresolvetheissueconclusively.
135. He paid $150 for a through ticket, so the second fare adjustment had taken place, and the station stop at Mesilla had definitely been placed in service.
136. William Tallack, The California Overland Ex- press (Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California, 1935), p. 6 (hereafter cited as Tallack, Overland)', Lang, St. Louis, p. 129. Why Lang in- cluded Tallack’s story (pp. 129-163) in the westbound Volume 1 of his efforts, rather than in the second eastbound collection, is incomprehensible.
The same is true for postal agent G. Bailey’s report. 137. Tallack, Overland, p. 9.
138. Ibid., p. 43. Tallack’s record and the New
Mexico Census, 1860, pp. 1-65 confirm that by the summer of 1860, the Goodsight and the Rough and Ready Stations between Cooke’s Spring and Picacho were in service. The 14 stations (numbered but not otherwise identified) correlate with the Ap- pendixClisting. However,thecensusrecordsnoted
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