Russell’s Stagecoach Company’s Debt
No amount of positive publicity, however, resolved the unpaid debts the L & PPE continued to incur. Although the line ran a regular schedule, operating costs exceeded passenger fare receipts…
Russell’s Stagecoach Moves to the Platte Route
On May 11, 1859, not even one month after the L & PPE coaches started running, Jones, Russell & Company purchased the United States mail contract from John M. Hockaday…
Mail to Denver
With the L & PPE's regular mail service, Auraria and Denver City residents anxiously waited in line for a letter from the states six to seven days old. Previously, Fort…
Freighting Near Fort Kearney
Freighting across the Plains became big business with accelerated military campaigns of 1857 and 1858, and one of the biggest was the contracting firm of Russell, Majors and Waddell. Thaddeus…
The Nebraska City Road
"The most underrated and least understood approach to the Platte was that from Old Fort Kearney at Table Creek, which became Nebraska City in 1854. . . .[T]his was a…
The Great Venture of Leavenworth
"Horace Greeley wrote while on his way to Denver in 1859: 'Russell, Majors and Waddell's transportation establishment is the great feature of Leavenworth. Such acres of wagons! such pyramids of…