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Half an Hour in El Dorado (PH 1-12)(1940s-50s) (35 pages)
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Page: of 35
NO. 70
single-handed stage robberies, without firing a
shot. In fact, without even having a shell in the
gun, which he said he carried merely for ‘moral
effect.’’ Black Bart was given to leaving signed
verses (No. 78) at the scenes of his exploits.
However, it was not his handwriting, but a handkerchief bearing a laundry mark, that finally led
to his capture.
Still, highwaymen merely added to the excitement of stage travel. They did not put a stop to
it. In the late "Sixties, however, the real enemy
of the Concord coach appeared... the Iron
Horse. Picture No. 79 shows the first locomotive
of the Central Pacific (now part of the Southern
Pacific system), brought round the Horn while
the great transcontinental railroad still extended
but a few miles eastward from Sacramento.
Steadily, building went on, overcoming difficult