Front:
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.
Early-Day Transportation
in
WEST
TEXAS
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.
MC C. CO.3
3B-H1507
Back:
Siptach
Equal to Maine, N. Y. and Penna. in area,
the 1890 population of the 95 counties of West
Texas multiplied ten times to 981,95 by 1930
and 1,019,525 by 1940—America's løst hontier,
and land of the modern pionee!
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VASKOCION
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Dear Curri jane
eine
beshonte
Me Earl Linengood
we are plenty a
legather to
this time of year,
sek. will
Shane cartiek 3 Lucket
i peaehe dont que esefox
bergara
Blitid has
Episal.me trice
dret jane entry Abernathy
Texas.
Per thizitettynes.
