Reading almost like a western novel, this well-documented history of a frontier business enterprise reveals the turbulent career of a stagecoach line that stretched from San Antonio to El Paso and at times reached to Santa Fe and San Diego
A lucid, compelling depiction, thoroughly researched and well foot-noted with a helpful appendix of the chronology. Oh and by the way, the description that's printed here has nothing to do with the book I'm referring to, which is Austerman's Sharps Rifles and Spanish Mules: The San Antonio-El Paso Mail, 1851-1881. Apparently there's a glitch. e