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Jones & Russell's Express was taken over by Russell,
Majors and Wadell when the C.O.C. & P.P. Express Company
was formed in October, 1859. The eastern terminus of the
route was changed from Leavenworth City, Kansas Territory
to Saint Joseph, Missouri at the beginning of May, 1860
as shown by the cover at right.
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22 May 1860 Denver City, Kansas Territory
to Stouts Office, Ohio
Jones & Russell's Pike's Peak Express handstamp
usage after C.O.P. & P.P. Express take
over
29 May 1860 entered U.S. mails with Saint Joseph,
Missouri postmark
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Enclosed letter from E.P. "Pinky" Stout
includes:
"I should receive your
letters inside of ten days instead of from 15 to 20
as they go to St. Joseph in 6 days.
We have just come in from
a stroll among the gambling saloons. Sunday night
is the popular evening for them. We very often hear
preaching in the second and gambling in the first
stories of the same building at the same time neither
congregation ever seem to be disturbed with the noise
of the other although there is but a single floor
separating them and common conversation could be distinctly
hear from one room to the other.
The emigration is coming
at the rate of 500 to 1000 per day - you will never
have any idea of the excitement until you once see
a country like this."
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