Title: Hank Monk and Horace Greeley
First published: 1973
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.
People: Horace Greeley (1811-1872), Henry James Monk (d. 1883)