Chino Vocational High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Chino, CA)

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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