A Texas Pioneer: Early Staging and Overland Freighting Days on the Frontiers of Texas and Mexico【電子書籍】[ August Santleben ]

＜p＞＜strong＞"August Santleben, a San Antonio pioneer in the trade, said that on one trip he carried $350,000 in Mexican silver, 40,000 pounds of copper and $24,000 in silver coin." ＜em＞Fort Worth Star Telegram, Dec. 11, 1960＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞The parents of August Santleben came to Texas from Germany in 1845, when he was only a few months old. He grew up on the frontier near Castroville and served as a mail-carrier, a private in E. J. Davis's regimentーthe First Texas (Union) Cavalryー1863-1865, as a stage driver, 1866-1867, and as a freightcontractor between San Antonio and Monterey, Saltillo and Chihuahua, 1867-1877. In later years he engaged in business and politics in San Antonio.＜/p＞ ＜p＞His autobiography, though concerned chiefly with personal experiences, nevertheless, presents an interesting picture of the anterailroad days on both sides of the Rio Grande, and especially of the methods and difficulties of transportation between Texas and Mexico when it was dependent upon the slo．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る