Includes information on the stage coach business, the steam boating, the Pony Express, etc.

The transportation frontier, 1865 -- The persistence of the overlanders -- Teamsters on the frontier -- Stagecoaching as frontier enterprise -- Overland by stage -- Steamboats on a vanishing frontier -- Railroads blanket the West -- Laying the track -- Travel by rail -- Indians, outlaws and wayfarers -- Good roads and the passing of the transportation frontier.