RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
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He contributed to growth in CA because of the stagecoach that carried mail.
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He discovered the first pieces of gold.
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He engineered the railroad.
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He financed the transcontinental railroad.
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Detailed explanation-1: -He founded many companies, including American Express which is still in operation today. The Butterfield Overland Mail Company was the longest stagecoach line in the world.
Detailed explanation-2: -The history of the Butterfield Trail and the Emigrant Trail are intertwined. It was the purpose of awarding the contract to the Overland Mail Company, on September 16, 1857, not only for a land route to deliver mail from the East to the West coast, but to aid emigrant travel to settle the West.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1857 John Butterfield, a Missouri stage line operator, contracted with the U.S. Post Office Department to set up a southern route between St. Louis/Memphis and San Francisco. Specified by contract, the route extended 2, 795 miles. Butterfield inaugurated the mail service in mid-September 1858.
Detailed explanation-4: -Butterfield’s Overland Mail Company, also known as the Overland Stage Company, was the brainchild of John Butterfield.
Detailed explanation-5: -Wells Fargo got the route surveyed and shared in the financing. Nicknamed the “Butterfield Line” after its president, John Butterfield, it ran 2, 757 miles through the Southwest via El Paso and Los Angeles and then up through California’s Central Valley to San Francisco.