Old Waybills. The Romance Of The Express Companies.

ALVIN F. HARLOW

Publication: D Appleton-Century Company, Incorporated, 1934, New York

First edition. Figure "1" at end of index. Red cloth, titles stamped in gold gilt on front cover and spine, xii, [2], 503, [1] pp., frontispiece, foreword, numerous illustrations, plates, portraits, facsimiles, bibliography, index, figure "1" at end of index. Fine copy in internally reinforced (with archival tape) dust jacket with light wear to the extremities. The handsome wraparound dust jacket depicts a stagecoach holdup and robbery. Six Guns 924 says "At least half of this book deals with train ad stagecoach robberies, with some information on the Jameses and Youngers, Sam Bass, Black Bart, Evans, Sontag, and others." This is the third book by the author on transportation, for as the express companies grew, so grew the nation.

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