In the Senate of the United States. June 14, 1860... Mr. Hale made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 507.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the memorial of the California Stage Company, asking compensation for extra services rendered on thirteen routes in California ... Author: Hale, John P. Place: Washington, D.C. Publisher: U.S. Government Date: 1860 Description: 19 pp. 21.8x14 cm (8½x5½"), removed/disbound from larger volume, now in modern leather-backed marbled boards. Significant source material on history of transportation in the West, being one of the first sources of the early history of the California Stage Company, one of the principal stagecoach lines carrying passengers during the California Gold Rush in the 1850s. It was founded by James. E. Birch at the end of 1853. Quite rare - OCLC has only one listing, a computer file at the University of Wyoming. The Stage Company contracted to carry the U.S. mail in two-horse coaches on thirteen routes in some cases semi-weekly, somw weekly. Stagecoach drivers carried mail as well as passengers, and had to deal with hold-up attempts, bad weather, and perilous, primitive trails These were the following routes: Stockton to Mariposa, Stockton to Sonora, Sacramento to Volcano, Sacramento to Placerville, Sacramento to Georgetown, Sacramento Michigan Bluff, Sacramento to Nevada, Marysville to Nelson Creek, Marysville to Nevada, Nevada to Downieville, Shasta to Yreka, Marysville to Gibsonville, and Sacramento to Diamond Springs. This report asking compensation for extra services rendered on thirteen routes for the four years 1854-June 30, 1858. F. S. Steven, the Vice-president of the California Stage Company, and the Postmasters of all of the cities involved, gave the detailed explanations and the amounts of pro rata pay for the extra services. The total amount presented for payment was $154,352 51. Charley/ Charlotte Darkey Parkhurst was one of the finest stage coach drivers (a "whip") on the West Coast of the time. Among Parkhurst's routes in northern California was Stockton to Mariposa. Raised a girl in New England, Parkhurst ran away as a youth, taking the name Charley and began living as a man. After Parkhurst died in 1879, neighbors came to the cabin to lay out the body for burial and discovered that his body appeared to be female. Lot Amendments Condition: Near fine. Item number: 324284
In the Senate of the United States. June 14, 1860... Mr. Hale made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 507.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the memorial of the California Stage Company, asking compensation for extra services rendered on thirteen routes in California ... Author: Hale, John P. Place: Washington, D.C. Publisher: U.S. Government Date: 1860 Description: 19 pp. 21.8x14 cm (8½x5½"), removed/disbound from larger volume, now in modern leather-backed marbled boards. Significant source material on history of transportation in the West, being one of the first sources of the early history of the California Stage Company, one of the principal stagecoach lines carrying passengers during the California Gold Rush in the 1850s. It was founded by James. E. Birch at the end of 1853. Quite rare - OCLC has only one listing, a computer file at the University of Wyoming. The Stage Company contracted to carry the U.S. mail in two-horse coaches on thirteen routes in some cases semi-weekly, somw weekly. Stagecoach drivers carried mail as well as passengers, and had to deal with hold-up attempts, bad weather, and perilous, primitive trails These were the following routes: Stockton to Mariposa, Stockton to Sonora, Sacramento to Volcano, Sacramento to Placerville, Sacramento to Georgetown, Sacramento Michigan Bluff, Sacramento to Nevada, Marysville to Nelson Creek, Marysville to Nevada, Nevada to Downieville, Shasta to Yreka, Marysville to Gibsonville, and Sacramento to Diamond Springs. This report asking compensation for extra services rendered on thirteen routes for the four years 1854-June 30, 1858. F. S. Steven, the Vice-president of the California Stage Company, and the Postmasters of all of the cities involved, gave the detailed explanations and the amounts of pro rata pay for the extra services. The total amount presented for payment was $154,352 51. Charley/ Charlotte Darkey Parkhurst was one of the finest stage coach drivers (a "whip") on the West Coast of the time. Among Parkhurst's routes in northern California was Stockton to Mariposa. Raised a girl in New England, Parkhurst ran away as a youth, taking the name Charley and began living as a man. After Parkhurst died in 1879, neighbors came to the cabin to lay out the body for burial and discovered that his body appeared to be female. Lot Amendments Condition: Near fine. Item number: 324284
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