Category: Travel Writing
SIR: In compliance with your request, I beg leave to submit the following report, showing the present condition of the mail stage line running semi-monthly between San Antonio, Texas, and San Diego, California, containing also extracts from the journal of my trip over the line...
SIR: In compliance with your request, I beg leave to submit the following report, showing the present condition of the mail stage line running semi-monthly between San Antonio,...
2. Part 2I wrote to Mr. Birch to-day, informing him of my progress up to this point, calling his attention particularly to the attack on Captain Wallace, which resulted in the loss of th...
3. Part 3_August 25._--Started at daylight this morning, and breakfasted at Cook’s spring, in a drizzling rain, which lasted at intervals all day. This spring is at the foot of the easte...
4. Part 4_October 17._--To-day I despatched two coaches, with complete outfits of animals and other necessaries. One of the coaches is to run between Carissa creek and Fort Yuma; the oth...
5. Part 5From Fort Hudson, in Texas, to Tazotal, on the Gila, a distance of 1,200 miles, nearly the whole of our route is over an elevated, dry country. When but a small amount of labor...
6. Part 6Persons interested in mining pursuits are now looking with great interest towards the silver and copper mines of Arizona. Our mail not only carries the correspondence which take...