(WEST) Brice James Reminiscences of Ten Years Experience on

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(WEST.) Brice, James. Reminiscences of Ten Years Experience on the Western Plains: How the United States Mails were Carried before Railroads Reached the Santa Fe Trail. 6 full-page illustrations. 24 pages. 8vo, publisher's gilt wrappers; minor dampstaining. (MRS) [Kansas City, MO, 1907?]

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"Brice was employed first, in 1858, as a helper to carry the weekly mail from Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe, and to post offices and individuals on the trail. Later he was in charge of a supply station for the mail contractors. He tells of experiences of himself and others, of the hardships and perils of the trip, of attacks by Indians on the mail wagons and their escorts on the emigrant trains"--Streeter sale V:3118 (the last copy known at auction, in 1968). Howes B759 ("aa"). Provenance: Yale & Brown booksellers to the consignor.