The Butterfield Messenger

Imagine yourself sitting next to the driver on a stagecoach for twenty-four hours. Along with the long ride, it might be blazing hot, a driving rainstorm, a blinding snowstorm, or freezing cold. That’s the life of the Butterfield Overland Mail messenger in 1858. There were hostile Apaches and highway men, broken axles, sand storms, rushing rivers that were dangerous to ford, wild mules that had to be chased down and hitched, steep rocky mountain roads where passengers had to get out and walk in all kinds of weather and push the stage coach up to the top of the pass, and much of the stage station food served was spoiled and wormy. This was the life of the Butterfield messenger. Now you can take a step back in time, back 150 years, and witness life as it was in 1858. The author presents history, adventures, characters, and events of life on the Butterfield route from Missouri to California and presents an exciting 232-page easy to read book for almost any age.