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Author:
Moody, Ralph 1898-1982
Title:
Wells Fargo / Ralph Moody ; illustrated by Victor Mays
Edition:
Paperback Edition
Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press
Copyright Date:
c2005
Description:
185 pages illustrations 21 cm Paperback
Subject:
Wells, Fargo & Company--Juvenile literature.
Brigands and robbers--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Other Authors:
Mays, Victor, 1927- ill.
Notes:
Originally published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Gold rush days -- The birth of Wells, Fargo & Company -- The great California panic -- Rattlesnake Dick, king of the highwaymen -- Tom Bell, terror of the mother lode -- The "Confederate soldiers" -- Black Bart, the phantom highwayman -- Jim Hume, ace of detectives -- Later years.
Summary:
Henry Wells (1805-78) and William Fargo (1818-81) first worked together when they broke the Post Office monopoly on mail service along the Erie Canal in the 1840s
ISBN:
9780803283039
0803283032 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN:
2004021029
Locations:
LEPI975 -- Woodbury County Library (Moville)

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