The Standard Reference Guide to the artifacts and relics used by agents, drivers, and messengers of the express company whose name has become synonymous with the American West: Wells Fargo!

Over 500 items of authentic personal, office, and stable property are identified as actual equipment and supplies used in Wells Fargo's express offices, stagecoaches, and the railcars from the founding of the company to its final days during WWI.  These pages bring to life the "things" that are avidly sought-after today by western aficionados, collectors and historians. 

The company's advertising, books, cap badges, covers, guns, keys, locks, lanterns, posters, signs, wax sealers and numerous other items are presented and illustrated, and answers given to:

• How was each item used?

• Why was it needed?

• What did it cost?

• What is its present value?

• What was each property item's place and significance in operating the most romanticized company in history?

Select from these fine editions:

The Treasure Box Edition - Leather cover with slipcase, numbered 1 through 100, and signed by the author. A most impressive addition to the serious Western historian's personal library.

The Black Bart Edition - Hardcover with colorful dust jacket, for the collector's reading and lasting reference.

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