Butterfield Overland National Historic Trail PASSENGER DIARIES & STORIES Across Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Missouri 1858 - 1861. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Butterfield Overland National Historic Trail PASSENGER DIARIES & STORIES Across Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Missouri 1858 - 1861

On the Butterfield National Historic Trail, the Overland Mail Company stagecoaches rolled across Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri one hundred and sixty five years ago as they connected with San Francisco. Now that the route is a National Historic Trail, it seems appropriate to remember what that experience was like for passengers. The following pages contain reminiscences of first person observers in their own words.In most chapters below I have attempted to only include portions of each original document that focus on passage through Missouri, Arkansas and the Indian Territory.

Dr. Bob Crossman has lived within a few hundred feet of Butterfield's Overland Mail Co. stage route across Arkansas most of his adult life in Russellville, Morrilton, Brightwater, North Little Rock, Pottsville, and since 1988 in Conway. He is a member of the Southern Trails Chapter of the Oregon-California Trails Association, Faulkner County Historical Society, Arkansas Historical Association, the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History, and numerous postal history organizations.After graduating from Russellville High School, Bob received a B.A. from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, and received graduate and post-graduate degrees from SMU in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Bob Crossman bcrossman@arumc.org8 Sternwheel Drive, Conway, AR 72034-9391