https://butterfieldoverlandstage.com/history/2020-03-07T16:44:13+00:00weekly0.6https://butterfieldoverlandstage.com/2012/03/28/transcontinental-stagecoach-service-from-st-louis-to-san-francisco/2020-02-10T20:45:03+00:00monthlyhttps://butterfieldoverlandstage.com/2012/03/28/california-stations/2020-02-10T20:44:54+00:00monthlyhttps://butterfieldoverlandstage.com/2012/03/28/new-mexico-stations/2020-02-10T20:44:43+00:00monthlyhttps://butterfieldoverlandstage.com/2012/03/28/texas-stations/2020-02-10T20:44:31+00:00monthlyhttps://butterfieldoverlandstage.com/2012/03/28/oklahoma-stations/2020-02-10T20:44:21+00:00monthlyhttps://butterfieldoverlandstage.com/2012/03/28/arkansas-stations/2020-02-10T20:44:11+00:00monthlyhttps://butterfieldoverlandstage.com/2012/03/28/missouri-stations/2020-02-10T20:44:00+00:00monthlyhttps://butterfieldoverlandstage.com/2012/03/28/divisions-and-stations-of-the-route/2020-02-10T20:43:42+00:00monthlyhttps://butterfieldoverlandstage.com/2012/03/29/proposal-for-overland-mail-delivery/https://butterfieldoverlandstage.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/aaron_brown21.jpgaaron_brown2Aaron Brown, U.S. postmasterhttps://butterfieldoverlandstage.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/aaron_brown2.jpgaaron_brown2Aaron Brown, postmaster2020-02-10T20:43:25+00:00monthlyhttps://butterfieldoverlandstage.com/2012/08/01/maps-of-the-route/2020-02-10T20:43:12+00:00monthlyhttps://butterfieldoverlandstage.com/2015/06/22/establishing-the-route/2020-02-10T20:42:44+00:00monthlyhttps://butterfieldoverlandstage.com/2015/06/23/the-first-running-of-the-stage/https://butterfieldoverlandstage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/sanfran.jpgsanfranBased on a photograph, this 1858 woodcut print from Harper's Weekly shows the first eastbound Butterfield stage about to embark from San Francisco headed to Tipton, Missouri. When first started, stages left San Francisco at 6 a.m. each Monday, Wednesday and Friday.https://butterfieldoverlandstage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/maricopawells-1857-2d.jpgmaricopawells-1857-2dA wagon encampment at Maricopa Wells, circa 1857.https://butterfieldoverlandstage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/mesilla-1854-3.jpgMesilla-1854-3The one-story adobes of Mesilla, not long after the Gadsden Purchase, with the Organ Mountains on the horizon, circa 1854.https://butterfieldoverlandstage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/fortsmith2.jpgfortsmith2Fort Smith as it appeared in the late 1860s. The building to the left is the quartermaster's storehouse. At center is the powder magazine and to the right of it is one of the barracks.https://butterfieldoverlandstage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/jbutterfieldjr2.jpgjbutterfieldjr2John Butterfield, a son of the founder and driver of the first west-bound stage.https://butterfieldoverlandstage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/watermanormsby2.jpgwatermanormsby2Waterman L. Ormsby, first through-passenger on the Overland Mail stagecoaches.2020-02-10T20:42:31+00:00monthlyhttps://butterfieldoverlandstage.com/2015/06/23/memphis-to-fort-smith-operations/2020-02-10T20:42:20+00:00monthlyhttps://butterfieldoverlandstage.com/2015/06/24/demise-of-the-southern-route/https://butterfieldoverlandstage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/denver.jpgdenverA stagecoach can be seen, left, in front of the Denver Butterfield Overland Despatch office at far left in this Harper's Weekly illustration from 1866.2020-02-10T20:42:06+00:00monthlyhttps://butterfieldoverlandstage.com/2015/11/05/forts-on-and-near-the-route/2020-02-10T20:41:53+00:00monthlyhttps://butterfieldoverlandstage.com/organizations-and-links/2017-07-22T23:21:33+00:00weekly0.6https://butterfieldoverlandstage.com/2012/03/28/arizona-stations/2023-02-09T14:33:39+00:00monthlyhttps://butterfieldoverlandstage.com/history/proposal-for-overland-mail-delivery/https://butterfieldoverlandstage.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/aaron_brown2.jpgaaron_brown2Aaron Brown, postmaster general2012-04-02T22:49:27+00:00weekly0.6https://butterfieldoverlandstage.com/posts/2012-03-28T23:27:36+00:00weekly0.6https://butterfieldoverlandstage.com/about/2020-11-30T17:30:34+00:00weekly0.6https://butterfieldoverlandstage.comdaily1.02023-02-09T14:33:39+00:00