Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Express service
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Wells Fargo Messenger
Author: The Great Understander
Author: Oliver Roberts De La FontainePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Wells Fargo Messenger
Author: The Great Understander
Author: William W. WalterPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258045319
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Chips the Wells Fargo Messenger
Author: William F. StrobridgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
Stagecoach
Author: Philip L. FradkinPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 074322762X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Sweeping in scope, as revealing of an era as it is of a company, Stagecoach is the epic story of Wells Fargo and the American West, by award-winning writer Philip L. Fradkin. The trail of Wells Fargo runs through nearly every imaginable landscape and icon of frontier folklore: the California Gold Rush, the Pony Express, the transcontinental railroad, the Civil and Indian Wars. From the Great Plains to the Rockies to the Pacific Ocean, the company's operations embraced almost all social, cultural, and economic activities west of the Mississippi, following one of the greatest migrations in American history. Fortune seekers arriving in California after the discovery of gold in 1849 couldn't bring the necessities of home with them. So Wells Fargo express offices began providing basic services such as the exchange of gold dust for coin, short-term deposits and loans, and reliable delivery and receipt of letters, money, and goods to and from distant places. As its reputation for speed and dependability grew, the sight of a red-and-yellow Wells Fargo stagecoach racing across the prairie came to symbolize not only safe passage but faith in a nation's progress. In fact, for a time Wells Fargo was the most powerful and widespread institution in the American West, even surpassing the presence of the federal government. Stagecoach is a fascinating and rare combination of Western and business history. Along with its colorful association with the frontier -- Wyatt Earp, Black Bart, Buffalo Bill -- readers will discover that swiftness, security, and connectivity have been constants in Wells Fargo's history, and that these themes remain just as important today, 150 years later.
Wells Fargo
Author: Robert Joseph ChandlerPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738531434
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Those striking images of stagecoaches traversing rugged mountain terrain are no mere marketing gimmick, but part and parcel of Wells Fargo's storied past. When Henry Wells and William Fargo founded the company in 1852, the gold rush had already brought thousands of people to California and uncovered the largest amount of wealth then known to the world. Wells Fargo served a unique role as a banking, express or transporting, and mail-delivery agency. In 1857, the company helped establish the Overland Mail Company; in 1861, it operated the Pony Express; and in 1866, it put together a 3,000-mile network of stagecoaches running between California and Nebraska. Three decades later, Wells Fargo covered the nation over a web of iron rails. Miners and merchants, ranchers and farmers alike depended on Wells Fargo. The company always used the fastest means possible for its deliveries and fund transfers, whether by riverboat, ocean steamer, pony express, stagecoach, railroad, or the fastest method of all, the telegraph.
Treasure Express
Author: Neill WilsonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781985895201
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Treasure Express: Epic Days of the Wells Fargo, first published in 1938, is an exciting account of the heady early days of the Wells Fargo offices and its paddlewheel, stagecoach, and express services. The book chronicles the story of Henry Wells (1805-78) and William Fargo (1818-81) who incorporated Wells, Fargo & Company in California in 1852 to provide express services from the gold fields to financial centers of the East. what followed were often life-or-death struggles by the drivers and guards as they fought against both the elements and attacks by marauding bandits and outlaws; a number of the most daring and infamous robberies are detailed. Indexed and illustrated throughout with photographs.
Wells Fargo
Author: Ralph MoodyPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803283039
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Presents the story of how Henry Wells and William Fargo went into express mail business in California and stopped the Post Office monopoly during the nineteenth century.
A Brief History of Wells Fargo ...
Author: Wells Fargo Bank American Trust CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Express service
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description