Front:
Early-Day Transportation
Oxen-drawn covered wagon, typical of
hundreds used to cross dangerous Indian
country and buffalo prairies to settle vir-
gin ranges of West Texas. Note bull-wacker
with guide rope and long whip.
WEST
TEXAS
in
West Texas!
Pony express rider
actually a thin paper,
fast - message
who raced at break-neck
speed against time.
Rider-stations were
about 80 miles apart
with two pony-change
points en route. Buffalo
Bill once made a two-
station run and return,
320 miles, in 21% hours,
exhausting 12 ponies.
courier
West Texas four-horse stage-coach, driver and
guard. Frequent relays of horses made possible
surprising speed over rough, highwaymen-in-
fested trails. Passengers arrived dusty, bruised
and weary.
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Back:
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Equal to Maine, N. Y. and Penna. in area,
the 1890 population of the 95 counties of West
Texas multiplied ten times to 981,351 by 1930
and 1,019,525 by 1940-America's last frontier
and land of the modern pioneer!
searalisia to get
AMARIOLE, TEXAS
WASHINE
1789 1797
S.
un ut T.R. Be suas
ban let me hnojilo
C.ART-COLOR TONE' 'POST CARD (REG.'.SPA
pela
Mhay
we ni
gauna Rayo A. .Mis. Alice?
lize niet met Haco Luis
Manoushi Murrourists 1011 Beacon su
ulude am putut ruimet Brookline Niass
Hope to you tannar To mrs. Holland
anna Th. Murdoch
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GENUINE CURTEICH-CHICATO