Texas Stagecoach History Resource
     
 
 
 
     
 
TTA Resources
 
  Lists of Texas Stage Operators  
  Stage Operators in Texas in 1861 (Texas Almanac) . The 1861 Almanac lists 31 stage routes operating that year.  
     
  Stage Operators in Texas in 1891 (Texas State Library and Archives). Lists 13 stage operators in Texas.  
     
 
Links to Other Resources
 
  Stagecoach History  
  "Stagecoach Lines", Handbook of Texas.  
  "Risher and Hall Stage Lines", Handbook of Texas.  
     
 
Further Reading
 
     
  Austerman, Wayne R. Sharps Rifles and Spanish Mules: The San Antonio-El Paso Mail, 1851-1881. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1985.  
     
  Barton, Barbara. Stagecoach Lines & Freighters of West Texas. Knickerbocker, Tex.: Barton's Books, 2008.  
     
  Fauntleroy, J. D. "Old Stage Routes of Texas," Frontier Times, July, 1929, Vol. 6.  
     
  Hafen, LeRoy R. Overland Mail, 1849-1869. Cleveland: Clark, 1926.  
     
  Konwiser, Harry M. Texas Republic Postal System. New York: Lindquist, 1933.  
     
  Ormsby, Waterman L. The Butterfield Overland Mail. San Marino, California: Huntington Library, 1942.  
     
  Santleben, August. A Texas Pioneer. New York and Washington: Neale, 1910.  
     
  Ter Braake, Alex L. Texas: The Drama of Its Postal Past. Fredericksburg, Maryland: American Philatelic Society, 1970.  
     
  Texas State Historical Association. Texas Almanac for the years 1857-1871. Many of these years included lists of stage routes and operators.  
     
  Thonhoff, Robert H. San Antonio Stage Lines, 1847-1881. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1971.