. Early history of Wabaunsee County, Kansas, with stories of pioneer days and glimpses of our western . er of each coach were three men and occasionally one or more extracoaches were required. The schedule time from Independence toSanta Fe was twenty days until 1860, when it was reduced to fifteen , *Boyish pleasure never assumed the superlative form in a ^iioreeminent degree than in our own case while playing the role of outrideron tlie overland mail. If we could manage to meet the mail at Wil-mington and be whipper-up to the old station and thence to 142creek (of course
. Early history of Wabaunsee County, Kansas, with stories of pioneer days and glimpses of our western . er of each coach were three men and occasionally one or more extracoaches were required. The schedule time from Independence toSanta Fe was twenty days until 1860, when it was reduced to fifteen , *Boyish pleasure never assumed the superlative form in a ^iioreeminent degree than in our own case while playing the role of outrideron tlie overland mail. If we could manage to meet the mail at Wil-mington and be whipper-up to the old station and thence to 142creek (of course we wanted to go there after the mail) we would feelas though we had met with an unusual piece of good luck. Our pre-dilection for this employment is probably responsible for our failure totake a course at college. Being proffered a scholarship (at Lebanoncollege, Tenn.) my brother Bavis remarked that a place on the mailline would be more to my liking. My fathers displeasure in the mat-ter was shown by his never leferring to the matter again. But we arenot complaining. EARLY HISTORY OF WABAUNSEE COUNTY, EARLY HISTORY OF WABAUNSEE COUNTY, KAN. 209 days. Until 1859 Lost Springs was the last station and outfittingpoint. Beyond this only long-route mules were serviceable, thebroken-down and short winded short-route mules being detailed forservice on short drives on the east and west ends of the line. Here,time was made, as much as 150 miles being covered in the first 24hours. Conductors and driverswere heavily armed as a protection tothe mail and the large sums of money sent in the care of the seldom attacked the crews were frequently held up by Indianswith begging papers. This meant generous treatment or imminentrisk of the consequences, that were, as a rule, averted. The killing ofthe Smith brothers referred to in Bill Coles Last Drive was anexception—one that had little effect in curtailing the number ofapplications for eniployment at the office of the Over
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