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Boom Hotel, San Fernando First Site of California Junior Republic the scanty luggage was carried. Tweny-five pounds of per- sonal baggage was the usual allowance of the three week jour- ney. It was on the ' boot ' that the mail sacks were packed, and if there was more mail than could be accommodated here, the sacks rode inside to the exclusion of the passengers. A thrilling page in the romantic, colorful story of Con- tinental conquest was inscribed by the pony express riders. The Stage drivers were the most colorful and picturesque men of the period of expansion. Among the most notable were the stage drivers of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. They were courtly and gallant, and they were the best and fearless whips, and drove the best stage hcses in the United States. They were clean and well dressed, and their clothes were made to order. They wore clean white shirts and collars, and their boots were always polished. They generally drove six horses, all of the same color, black predominating from the fifties to the eighties, after which the bay came into popular- ity. A few of the best known stage drivers that will remain in history and legend, are, George Monroe, a Mariposa coun- ty mulatto, undoubtedly monarch of them all. Hank Monk is one driver who got Horace Greeley into Placerville on b CIO vocAii i« m Butterfield Stage Line Foreground Site of Fowler anal McCormick Cottages
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Butterfield and his associates had been successful among nine bidders in offering performance of services calhng for good four horse coaches or spring wagons, suitable for the conveyance of passengers, as well as the safety and security of the mails. The route specified in the contract runs from Memphis, Tennessee, converging at Little Rock, Arkansas; thence by Preston, Texas, to the best point of crossing the Rio Grande, above El Paso, and not far from Fort Fillmore; thence, along the new road being opened and constructed under the di- rection of the Secretary of the Interior, at Fort Yuma, Cali- fornia; thence through the best passes and along the best valleys for safe and expeditious staging to San Francisco. The trip was made from St. Louis, Missouri, to San Fran- cisco in rwenty-four days, eighteen hours, and twenty-six minutes. This was done in an Overland Mail Coach built by Abbot and Downing in Concord, New Hampshire, that could carry a maximum of fourteen passengers, nine seated inside and the others on the roof seat and box. This type of coach was used exclusively by Butterfield and was held to be the best in the country for the purpose of carrying mail and trans- porting passengers. After a period of a few hours the Stage would reach a swing station, with cabin and corral where the tired sweat- ing horses were unharnessed and replaced by fresh, spirited teams, eager to take their shifts. As a result of the rough road and the very dry atmosphere, there was much repair work at the home stations which called for the constant ser- vices of the versatile blacksmith. It would be well to describe here the coach that made possible the long, hard, arduous trip from St. Louis to San Francisco. Its body was slung on stout leather traces, and was shel- tered from the weather by leather curtains. At the rear of the body was a projecting ' boot ' with a leather cover, in which
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