Hank Monk and Horace Greeley
Subtitle: an enduring episode in Western history
By: by Richard G. Lillard. And Detective work in the old files, identifying the photograph of Greeley in Placerville, 1859, by Mary V. Hood
Contributors: Hood, Mary V.
Publisher: Wilmac Press
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Georgetown, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
Subjects: Monk, Henry James, -- d. 1883; Greeley, Horace, -- 1811-1872
Other titles: Detective work in the old files
Description: In 1859, stagecoach driver Hank Monk gave Horace Greeley an extremely fast downhill ride between Genoa and Placerville. This ride developed into popular legend about what happened and whether it actually happened. There are photographs of both and of Greeley in Placerville.
Notes: Bibliographical references included in "Notes on the text" (p. 41-55)