Butterfield Trail
August 20, 2026
The first westbound Butterfield Overland Mail reached Franklin City, later El Paso, on September 30, 1858, after leaving St. Louis on September 16 and covering 1,411 miles in 14 days, a speed then considered extraordinary. Captain Henry Skillman, a veteran frontiersman and mail carrier, drove the…
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