Overland Mail initiates the first transcontinental mail service to San Francisco...
Item # 647687
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NEW YORK HERALD, Oct. 10, 1858
- First transcontinental mail service success
- Arrives at San Francisco, California
Page 4 has a report noting the very first transcontinental mail service to San Francisco, with: "Very Late From California" "Arrival of the First Overland Mail" "Short Trip Across the Plains" with several dispatches. A very significant event in the settling of the West.
Eight pages, nice condition.
Categories: The Old West, Pre-Civil War
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$42
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.
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