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Early Nebraska Stage Lines and the Westward Route
The piece describes 19th century overland travel in Nebraska from St Joseph to Denver and Fort Kearny, operated by Russell Majors and Waddell then Ben Holladay after 1862. It notes mail subsidies of 800000 dollars, Western Stage Company routes Omaha to Columbus and Nebraska City to Fort Kearny, and daily to Ft. Kearny by 1860. It cites fare details in 1868, and a diary of Gordon Lester in 1867 detailing travel from Omaha to Virginia City with rough roads, bad meals, and delays until rail expansion reduced stage use, with some lines lasting to 1900.
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