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Description

English: Foldout map of the Southwestern United States with territories and "Mail Route" of the Overland Mail Company contracted for $600,000 per year in 1857. Service began when the "first eastbound stagecoach departed San Francisco on September 15, 1858, and the westbound stagecoach left St. Louis a day later." The "DAILY LINE, from St.Louis to Springfield, Mo." was through en:Tipton, Missouri until the tbd railway was extended in 1859 along the preceding stage route to " The George Shackelford Relay and Meal Station" in en:Syracuse, Missouri. The "southern route" through the 1854 Gadsden Purchase region was abandoned in 1861 for the central route through the Kansas and Utah Territories (former Pony Express Route, not shown).

ERRATA

The serpentine line indicating an overland route between Fort Smith and Little Rock was via an Arkansas River "SEMI-WEEKLY LINE of STEAMERS carrying mail, freight, and passengers".
Lake Tahoe (not labeled) is not depicted on the California/Utah territories' lines (later the California/Nevada state lines)
"Wasatch Mountains" is depicted as a much larger part of the Great Basin Divide, extending from the Utah Territory, into the New Mexico T, and ending in California's Mojave Desert
"Nicolette L" with the inflow "Nicolett Riv" having the same shape as the Spanish Fork River (into Utah Lake) is shown near 114 degW rather than 111 deg W
"Sierra Madre

NAMES

Features without labels: Sevier Lake/ Sevier River,
Outdated names (current name displays in popup): Grand Riv., Los Angelos, Rio Colorado/ San Joaquin/, Sacramento City, Walker's L., Firebaugh's Ferry

Date

circa 1858(cartography)

Source

19th Century cartography: "ENGR^D BY SCHÖNBERG & CO, 75 NASSAU ST. N.Y." (the Overland Mail Company's "Principal Office, in New York [was] at the American Express Building, Hudson, Jay and Staple Streets".)
modern computerization (685 KB file timestamped 11/22/1985 8:56 AM) by National Postal Museum from the c. 1858-9 handbook "printed by Hellier and Company Publishers" for "conducters, agents, drivers, and station managers" and, in addition to the foldout map, an "Almanac for 1859" and a "Through Time Schedule (No. 2, Jan 1859)".
blurry 102KB image: previously uploaded 16 June 2010 (original upload date) to en.wikipedia.org by en:User Zeamays from http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/museum/1d_Butterfield.html
legible 685 KB image: National Postal Museum file 1990_0564_1-MAP-02.JPG

Author

author produced map prior to 1923

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	17:55, 12 August 2013	2,509 × 1,021 (1.04 MB)	30 SW	Foldout map of the Southwestern United States with "Mail Route" of the Overland Mail Company contracted for $600,000 per year in 1857. Service began when the "first eastbound stagec...
	17:55, 12 August 2013	2,509 × 1,021 (1.04 MB)	30 SW	Foldout map of the Southwestern United States with "Mail Route" of the Overland Mail Company contracted for $600,000 per year in 1857. Service began when the "first eastbound stagec...
	09:52, 13 October 2011	850 × 367 (232 KB)	SreeBot	(Original text) : Overlay with the route marked in red, by John Cross
	09:51, 13 October 2011	850 × 367 (253 KB)	SreeBot	(Original text) : {{Information \|Description = Historic 19th Century Map with Highlighted overlay of the route \|Source = http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/museum/1d_Butterfield.html \|Date = Mid-19th Century \|Author = Butterfi