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The Journal of San Diego History
Spring 1984, Volume 30, Number 2
Contents of This Issue
Book Notes
Raymond Starr, Book Reviews Editor
Wells Fargo in Colorado Territory. By W. Turrentine
Jackson. Denver: Colorado Historical Society, 1982. Colorado Historical Society
Monograph No. 1. Maps. Illustrations. Index. 84 pages. Price Unavailable.
W. Turrentine Jackson is a well known western historian with a long career at the University
of California, Davis. He has also been a consultant to Wells Fargo; a frequent
rider on Wells Fargo stagecoaches; and a leader in the Western History
Association. He has written a brief but solid account of the Wells Fargo
experience in the Colorado Territory. Jackson notes the early involvement
of Wells Fargo, its major expansion into the area in
1868-1869, the redirecting of services to adapt to the arrival of the railroads
after 1869, and the withdrawal from express service and the later return in
1881. The book is especially good on the stage line and express business, and is
of more general interest than the title might indicate.
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