Description: Acceptable - American Trail Series V -Volume III, Atlas. Red cloth, 8pp., plus 77 plates and three fold-out maps. 4 page tabs added by previous owner. Markings on one page. Moisture stains / damage to top page edge and covers / spine. The Butterfield Overland Mail Company operated from 1858 to 1861 under contract with the U.S. Postal Department, providing transportation of U.S. mail and stagecoach service from Memphis, Tennessee, and St. Louis, Missouri, to San Francisco. The routes from each eastern terminus met at Fort Smith, Arkansas, and then continued through Indian Territory (Oklahoma), Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Mexico, and California ending in San Francisco. Clark and Brunet 58: "The Conklings began their research in the 1920s and continued it up to the time of publication. What began as a history of the organization quickly evolved into the primary source of information on.the first great overland postal service from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast. [The authors] travelled over mon0000733935