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Jessu ar Bs, ed. %Q.101 Pp, Edg » 2a
56 Book Club of California, San Francisco. Early California mail bag. Editors: Edgar B. Jessup,
M. C. Nathan, and Henry H. Clifford. San Francisco, 1960.
12 folders. port., facsims. 26cm. (Jts Keepsake series, Issued in a case,
ConTEeNTs.—no. 1. The 40c rate period to California: the “stamp- less” covers, by B. C. Pearce.—no. 2. Adams & Company, first large or- ganized western express company and its successors, by M. C. Nathan.—no. 3. Samuel W. Langton, California’s greatest independent expressman, by M. C. Nathan.—no. 4. Pioneer expressmen: Hunter & Co.’s Express, Everts & Co.’s Express, and successors, by H. H. Clif- ford.—no. 5. Todd, Reynolds, and related companies, by H. H. Clif- ford.—no. 6. Gregory’s Express, Berford & Co.’s Express, by H. H. Clitford.—no, 7, The pony express, by E. B, Jessup.—no, 8, Overland
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