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Index
Front Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Part I. Western Staging Begins
The Stagecoach: Glamour and Utility
Lesser Coaches and Other Conveyances
Stage Teams and Traditions
Part II. Men of Vision
James E. Birch: The California Stage Company
Jared Crandall: Hall & Crandall, the Pioneer Stage Company and the Placerville Road
Louis McLane: Wells Fargo & Company
Part III. Hazards of the Road
A Test of Endurance
Accidents
The Pitt River Indian Attack
Road Rage
Part IV. Stage Robberies
Highwayman Tom Bell
Irresistible Temptation
Renegade Confederates
Highwayman Charles Bowles, aka Black Bart
The Ruggles Brothers
Twentieth-Century Desperados
Part V. Drivers and Messengers
Stage Driver Charley Parkhurst
Stage Driver Hank Monk
Unusual Incidents in a Stagecoach
Shotgun Messengers
Part VI. Routes, Towns and Stage Stops
Coloma and Mormon Island
Stockton
Sacramento
Auburn
The Mountaineer House
Yankee Jim’s
Marysville
Amador County
Downieville and Goodyears Bar
The Henness Pass Wagon Road
Shasta, Siskiyou and Trinity Counties
Dutch Flat and the Dutch Flat & Donner Lake Wagon Road
Epilogue
Bibliography
About the Author
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