The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail, 1858-18... - 9780806193199

The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail, 1858-1861Author(s): Glen Sample Ely\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press, United States\nImprint: University of Oklahoma Press\nISBN-13: 9780806193199, 978-0806193199\nSynopsis\nThis is the story of the antebellum frontier in Texas, from the Red River to El Paso, a raw and primitive country punctuated by chaos, lawlessness, and violence. During this time, the federal government and the State of Texas often worked at cross-purposes, their confused and contradictory policies leaving settlers on their own to deal with vigilantes, lynchings, raiding American Indians, and Anglo-American outlaws. Before the Civil War, the Texas frontier was a sectional transition zone where southern ideology clashed with western perspectives and where diverse cultures with differing worldviews collided.\n\n This is also the tale of the Butterfield Overland Mail, which carried passengers and mail west from St. Louis to San Francisc.