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
19th Century cartography: "ENGRD 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)".
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