Knights of the lash
Subtitle: the stagecoach stories of Major Benjamin C. Truman
By: edited with an introduction by Gary F. Kurutz.
Contributors: Kurutz, Gary F.; Blau, Marianna.; Book Club of California.; Castle Press.; A-1 Bookbinders.
Series: Publication -- no. 219; Publication (Book Club of California) -- no. 219.
Publisher: Book Club of California
Published: 2005
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 114
Subjects: Stagecoaches -- California -- History.; Stagecoaches -- West (U.S.) -- History.; Coach drivers -- California -- History.
Notes: Originally published as newspaper articles from 1867-1903.

Illustrations on endpapers.

"Three hundred and fifty copies ... designed and printed by the Castle Press, Pasadena, California ... and bound by Mariana Blau of A-1 Bookbinders, Los Angeles, California"--Colophon.

Set in Perpetua Titling and Centaur.

Title in blue and black; vignette.

Quarter bound in blue cloth with gold stamping; buff boards; mounted title label.
Table of contents: title: A stage ride from Denver to California in the winter of 1866; title: By stage to Virginia City and Austin, Nevada, in 1867; title: Knights of the lash : old time stage drivers of the West Coast; title: The passing of a Sierra knight; title: Knights of the road victimize Major Truman; title: Steve Venard's chase, or, The tragedy of Myer's Ravine.