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Overland Stage & Mail Letterheads, Ben Holladay Signed Check [158352]

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Paper Start Price:250.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 1,000.00 USD
Overland Stage & Mail Letterheads, Ben Holladay Signed Check [158352]
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325.00USDto l********d+ buyer's premium (81.25)
This item SOLD at 2022 Oct 13 @ 08:22UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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1864 Overland Stage Line blue letterhead signed by A L Halsey 10x8". 1865 Overland Mail letterhead, signed by H L Rumfield, station agent for Butterfield Stageline 10.5x8.5". 1870 Oregon and California Rail Road receipt signed by Ben Holliday, "an American transportation businessman responsible for creating the Overland Stage to California during the height of the 1849 California Gold Rush. Ben Holladay created a stagecoach empire and he is known in history as the "Stagecoach King". A native of Kentucky, he also was hired as a private courier to General Alexander Doniphan of Missouri. Doniphan refused point-blank to carry out orders to kill the Mormons during the 1838 Mormon War in Missouri. Through Holladay's friendship with Brigham Young, Holladay established a profitable freighting contract to Salt Lake City. His transportation empire later included steamships and railroads in Oregon." from Wikipedia.

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Provenance: Jim & Barbara Sherman Private Western Mining Museum