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Butterfield Overland Mail in California

Index Butterfield Overland Mail in California

The Butterfield Overland Mail in California was created by the United States Congress on March 3, 1857, and operated until June 30, 1861. [1]

60 relations: Alamo River, Algodones Dunes, Antelope Valley, Baja California, Butterfield Overland Mail, Butterfield Overland Mail in Arkansas and Missouri, Butterfield Overland Mail in Baja California, Butterfield Overland Mail in Indian Territory, Butterfield Overland Mail in New Mexico Territory, Butterfield Overland Mail in Texas, California, California Gold Rush, Carrizo Badlands, Carrizo Creek (Imperial County, California), Carrizo Creek Station, Carrizo Impact Area, Colorado Desert, Colorado River, Corona, California, Diablo Range, El Camino Viejo, Elkhorn Station, California, Fort Yuma, Gilroy, California, Imperial County, California, Indian Wells, Imperial County, California, Laguna Mountains, Little Chuckwalla Mountains, Los Angeles, Mexico, Mojave Desert, Mud Spring (Antelope Valley), New Mexico Territory, New River (Mexico–United States), Newhall Pass, Pacheco Pass, Peninsular Ranges, Pueblo de Los Ángeles, Rancho Little Temecula, Rancho Los Encinos, Rancho San Luis Gonzaga, Sackett's Wells, California, San Fernando Valley, San Francisco, San Francisquito Canyon, San Francisquito Pass, San Joaquin Valley, San Jose, California, Santa Clara Valley, Sonoran Desert, ..., Southern Emigrant Trail, Southern Pacific Transportation Company, Stockton–Los Angeles Road, Tejon Pass, Temecula Valley, United States Congress, Warner's Ranch, Willow Springs Station, Yuha Desert, Yuma, Arizona. Expand index (10 more) »

Alamo River

The Alamo River (Río Álamo) flows west and north from the Mexicali Valley (Baja California) across the Imperial Valley (California).

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Algodones Dunes

The Algodones Dunes is a large erg (sand dune field) located in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of California, near the border with Arizona and the Mexican state of Baja California.

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Antelope Valley

Antelope Valley is located in northern Los Angeles County, California, and the southeast portion of Kern County, California, and constitutes the western tip of the Mojave Desert.

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Baja California

Baja CaliforniaSometimes informally referred to as Baja California Norte (North Lower California) to distinguish it from both the Baja California Peninsula, of which it forms the northern half, and Baja California Sur, the adjacent state that covers the southern half of the peninsula.

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Butterfield Overland Mail

The Butterfield Overland Mail Trail was a stagecoach service in the United States, operating from 1857 to 1861.

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Butterfield Overland Mail in Arkansas and Missouri

The Butterfield Overland Mail in Arkansas and Missouri was created by the United States Congress on March 3, 1857, and operated until March 30, 1861.

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Butterfield Overland Mail in Baja California

The Butterfield Overland Mail route in Baja California was created as a result of an act by the United States Congress on March 3, 1857, and operated until June 30, 1861 as part of the Second Division of the route.

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Butterfield Overland Mail in Indian Territory

The Butterfield Overland Mail in Indian Territory was part of the overall Butterfield Overland Mail service (1857–1861) created by Congress March 3, 1857.

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Butterfield Overland Mail in New Mexico Territory

The Butterfield Overland Mail was a transport and mail delivery system that employed stagecoaches that traveled on a specific route between Saint Louis, Missouri and San Francisco, California and which passed through the New Mexico Territory.

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Butterfield Overland Mail in Texas

In Texas, the Butterfield Overland Mail service created by Congress on March 3, 1857, operated until March 30, 1861.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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California Gold Rush

The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.

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Carrizo Badlands

The Carrizo Badlands are a landform of badlands that lie within Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in eastern San Diego County, and in the Carrizo Impact Area in western Imperial County, in southern California.

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Carrizo Creek (Imperial County, California)

Carrizo Creek, is a stream that arises in the mountains of San Diego County, California, and terminates in Carrizo Wash in Imperial County, a tributary in turn to San Felipe Creek that terminates in the Salton Sea.

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Carrizo Creek Station

Carrizo Creek Station was a former stage station of the San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line and Butterfield Overland Mail now located in Imperial County, California just east of the San Diego County line, it lies within the boundaries of the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park just west of the Carrizo Impact Area.

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Carrizo Impact Area

The Carrizo Impact Area was used by the United States Navy as an air-to-ground bombing range during World War II and the Korean War.

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Colorado Desert

California's Colorado Desert is a part of the larger Sonoran Desert.

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Colorado River

The Colorado River is one of the principal rivers of the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico (the other being the Rio Grande).

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Corona, California

Corona is a city in Riverside County, California, United States.

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Diablo Range

The Diablo Range is a mountain range in the California Coast Ranges subdivision of the Pacific Coast Ranges.

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El Camino Viejo

El Camino Viejo a Los Ángeles (the Old Road to Los Angeles), also known as El Camino Viejo and the Old Los Angeles Trail, was the oldest north-south trail in the interior of Spanish colonial Las Californias (1769–1822) and Mexican Alta California (1822–1848), present day California.

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Elkhorn Station, California

Elkhorn Station is a former settlement in Fresno County, California.

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Fort Yuma

Fort Yuma was a fort in California located in Imperial County, across the Colorado River from Yuma, Arizona.

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Gilroy, California

Gilroy is a city located in Northern California's Santa Clara County, south of Morgan Hill and north of San Benito County.

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Imperial County, California

Imperial County is a county in the U.S. state of California.

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Indian Wells, Imperial County, California

Indian Wells is a former settlement in Imperial County, California.

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Laguna Mountains

The Laguna Mountains are a mountain range of the Peninsular Ranges System in eastern San Diego County, southern California.

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Little Chuckwalla Mountains

The Little Chuckwalla Mountains are a mountain range in Riverside County, California.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Mojave Desert

The Mojave Desert is an arid rain-shadow desert and the driest desert in North America.

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Mud Spring (Antelope Valley)

Mud Spring, formerly Aquaje Lodoso, is a spring and historic site in the western Antelope Valley, within northern Los Angeles County, southern California.

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New Mexico Territory

The Territory of New Mexico was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed (with varying boundaries) from September 9, 1850, until January 6, 1912, when the remaining extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of New Mexico, making it the longest-lived organized incorporated territory of the United States, lasting approximately 62 years.

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New River (Mexico–United States)

The New River (Río Nuevo) flows north from near Cerro Prieto, through the city of Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, into the United States through the city of Calexico, California, towards the Salton Sea.

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Newhall Pass

Newhall Pass is a low mountain pass in Los Angeles County, California.

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Pacheco Pass

Pacheco Pass, elevation, is a low mountain pass located in the Diablo Range in southeastern Santa Clara County, California.

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Peninsular Ranges

The Peninsular Ranges (also called the Lower California province) are a group of mountain ranges that stretch from Southern California to the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula; they are part of the North American Coast Ranges, which run along the Pacific Coast from Alaska to Mexico.

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Pueblo de Los Ángeles

El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles (the Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels) was the Spanish civilian pueblo founded in 1781, which by the 20th century became the American metropolis of Los Angeles.

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Rancho Little Temecula

Rancho Little Temecula was a Mexican land grant in present-day Riverside County, California given in 1845 by Governor Pío Pico to Pablo Apis.

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Rancho Los Encinos

Rancho Los Encinos (also Rancho El Encino and Rancho Encino) was a Spanish grazing concession, and later Mexican land granted cattle and sheep rancho and travelers way-station on the El Camino Real in the San Fernando Valley, in present-day Encino, Los Angeles County, California.

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Rancho San Luis Gonzaga

Rancho San Luis Gonzaga was a Mexican land grant in the Diablo Range, in present-day Santa Clara County and Merced County, California given in 1843 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Juan Perez Pacheco and José Maria Mejía.

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Sackett's Wells, California

Sackett's Wells is a former settlement in Imperial County, California.

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San Fernando Valley

The San Fernando Valley is an urbanized valley in Los Angeles County, California, defined by the mountains of the Transverse Ranges circling it.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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San Francisquito Canyon

San Francisquito Canyon is a canyon created through erosion of the Sierra Pelona Mountains by the San Francisquito Creek, in Los Angeles County, Southern California.

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San Francisquito Pass

San Francisquito Pass is a mountain pass in the Sierra Pelona Mountains, located northeast of Green Valley and Santa Clarita, in northern Los Angeles County, California.

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San Joaquin Valley

The San Joaquin Valley is the area of the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California that lies south of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and is drained by the San Joaquin River.

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San Jose, California

San Jose (Spanish for 'Saint Joseph'), officially the City of San José, is an economic, cultural, and political center of Silicon Valley and the largest city in Northern California.

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Santa Clara Valley

The Santa Clara Valley runs south-southeast from the southern end of San Francisco Bay in Northern California in the United States.

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Sonoran Desert

The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert which covers large parts of the Southwestern United States in Arizona and California and of Northwestern Mexico in Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur.

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Southern Emigrant Trail

Southern Emigrant Trail, also known as the Gila Trail, the Kearny Trail, Southern Trail and the Butterfield Stage Trail, was a major land route for immigration into California from the eastern United States that followed the Santa Fe Trail to New Mexico during the California Gold Rush.

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Southern Pacific Transportation Company

The Southern Pacific (or Espee from the railroad initials- SP) was an American Class I railroad network that existed from 1865 to 1998 that operated in the Western United States.

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Stockton–Los Angeles Road

Stockton–Los Angeles Road, also known as the Millerton Road, Stockton–Mariposa Road, Stockton–Fort Miller Road or the Stockton–Visalia Road, was established about 1853 following the discovery of gold on the Kern River in Old Tulare County.

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Tejon Pass

The Tejon Pass (pronounced "tay-HONE, tuh-HONE, or TAY-hone), previously known as Portezuelo de Cortes, Portezuela de Castac, and Fort Tejon Pass, is a mountain pass between the southwest end of the Tehachapi Mountains and northeastern San Emigdio Mountains, linking Southern California north to the Central Valley.

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Temecula Valley

Temecula Valley is a graben rift valley in western Riverside County, California.

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United States Congress

The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States.

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Warner's Ranch

Warner's Ranch near Warner Springs, California, was notable as a way station for large numbers of emigrants on the Southern Emigrant Trail from 1849 to 1861, as it was a stop on both the Gila River Trail and the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach line (1859-1861).

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Willow Springs Station

Willow Springs Station, was a changing station at Alamos or Willow Springs along the Second Division route of the Butterfield Overland Mail, in what is now Murrieta, in Riverside County, California.

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Yuha Desert

The Yuha Desert is a section of the Sonoran Desert located in the Imperial Valley of California; south of Interstate 8, west of El Centro, and north of the international border.

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Yuma, Arizona

Yuma (Yuum) is a city in and the county seat of Yuma County, Arizona, United States.

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Redirects here:

Butterfield Overland Mail 1st Division, Butterfield Overland Mail 2nd Division.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfield_Overland_Mail_in_California

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