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.
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Back:
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!
DISTRIBUTED BY MC CORMICK CO., PHOTOGRAPHERS, AMARILLO, TEXAS
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