Bibliography

 

Congressional Designation

Congress.gov. "S.3519 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Butterfield Overland National Historic Trail Designation Act." January 5, 2023. https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3519.

 

Contemporary Accounts and Primary Sources

Bartlett, John Russell. Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents: In Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora and Chihuahua in 2 Vols. George Routledge and Co., (London), 1854.

Marcy, Randolph Barnes. The Prairie Traveler: A Hand-Book for Overland Expeditions, with Maps, Illustrations, and Itineraries of the Principal Routes Between the Mississippi and the Pacific. Harper & brothers, 1859.

Tallack, William. The California Overland Express, the Longest Stage-Ride in the World. With an Introduction by Carl I. Wheat and a Check List of Published Material on the Butterfield Overland Mail by J. Gregg Layne. Historical Society of Southern California, Los Angeles. Special Book Publication, No. 1. Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California, 1935.

Ormsby, Waterman Lilly. The Butterfield Overland Mail. Huntington Library Press, 2007.

 

General Histories

Austerman, Wayne R. Sharps Rifles and Spanish Mules: The San Antonio-El Paso Mail, 1851-1881. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1985.

Blackshear, James Bailey, and Glen Sample Ely. Confederates and Comancheros: Skullduggery and Double-Dealing in the Texas–New Mexico Borderlands. University of Oklahoma Press, 2021.

Conkling, Roscoe Platt, and Margaret Badenoch Conkling. The Butterfield Overland Mail, 1857-1869: Its Organization and Operation Over the Southern Route to 1861; Subsequently Over the Central Route to 1866; and Under Wells, Fargo and Company in 1869 in 3 Vols. A. H. Clark Company, 1947.

Ely, Glen Sample. The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail, 1858-1861. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016.

Gard, Wayne. Along the Early Trails of the Southwest. Austin: Pemberton Press, 1969.

Groves, Melody. Butterfield’s Byway: America’s First Overland Mail Route Across the West. History Press, 2014.

Groves, Melody. “Butterfield Sets the Stage.” Wild West 27, no. 5 (February 2015): 52–57.

Hafen, L. R. “Butterfield’s Overland Mail.” California Historical Society Quarterly 2, no. 3 (1923): 211–22.

Izell, Mary Frances. “The Problem of Selecting the Northwest Arkansas Route for the Butterfield Overland Mail.” The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 17, no. 3 (1958): 232–38.

Jackson, W. Turrentine. “A New Look at Wells Fargo, Stage-Coaches and the Pony Express.” California Historical Society Quarterly 45, no. 4 (1966): 291–324.

Janin, Hunt. Trails of Historic New Mexico: Routes Used by Indian, Spanish and American Travelers through 1886. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, 2010.

Lemke, W. J. The Butterfield Overland Mail in Arkansas. Little Rock: Arkansas Historical Commission, 1957.

Nelson, Megan Kate. “The Civil War from Apache Pass.” Journal of the Civil War Era 6, no. 4 (2016): 510–35.

Peterson, Thomas H. “The Buckley House: Tucson Station for the Butterfield Overland Mail.” The Journal of Arizona History 7, no. 4 (1966): 153–67.

Pinkerton, Robert E. The First Overland Mail. New York, Random House, 1953.

Reed, Marjorie. The Butterfield Overland Stage across Arizona: Reproductions in Color of 20 Paintings. Tombstone, Ariz: Old Adobe Gallery, 1979.

———. The Butterfield Overland Stage in California: Reproductions in Color of 20 Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Fred Reeves, Rancho Santa Fe, California. Old Adobe Gallery, 1983.

———. The Butterfield Overland Stage through New Mexico and Texas: Reproductions in Color of 25 Paintings from the Collection of Dave and Valona Crowell and H.D. and Lela Varnum. Tombstone, Ariz: Old Adobe Gallery, 1980.

———. The Colorful Butterfield Overland Stage: Reproductions in Color of 21 Paintings. San Diego, Calif: Union-Tribune, 1981.

Richardson, Rupert N. “Some Details of the Southern Overland Mail.” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 29, no. 1 (1925): 1–18.

Rose, F. P. “Butterfield Overland Mail Company.” The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 15, no. 1 (1956): 62–75.

 

Trail and Route Guides

Ahnert, Gerald T. Retracing the Butterfield Overland Trail through Arizona; a Guide to the Route of 1857-1861. Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1973.

Fryer, Roy M. “The Butterfield Stage Route: And Other Historic Routes Eastward from Los Angeles.” Quarterly Publication (Historical Society of Southern California) 17, no. 1 (1935): 14–22.

Sanders, Kirby. Driver’s Guide to the Butterfield Overland Mail Route: Missouri, Arkansas & Oklahoma. Heritage Trail Partners, 2008.

———. The Butterfield Overland Mail Ox Bow Route Through Arkansas and Oklahoma: 1858-1861. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013.

———. The Butterfield Overland Mail Ox Bow Route Through Missouri; 1858-1861. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013.

———. The Butterfield Overland Mail Ox Bow Route Through Texas: 1858-1861. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013.

———. The Butterfield Overland Mail Route Through New Mexico and Arizona: 1858-1861. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013.

———. The Butterfield Overland Mail Route Through Northern California: 1858-1861. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013.

———. The Butterfield Overland Mail Route Through Southern California: 1858-1861. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013.

Steele, Phillip W. “The Butterfield Run” through the Ozarks: A History of John Butterfield’s Overland Mail Co. and Its Route through the Missouri & Arkansas Ozarks. Springdale, Ark: P. Steele, 1966.

Williams, J. W. “The Butterfield Overland Mail Road across Texas.” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 61, no. 1 (1957): 1–19.