Mail

Mail on the Move
by James H. Bruns

Mail on the Move is broken down into nine distinct sections, starting out with the conception of mail service in the United States by means of horses, stage coaches and wagons. Special attention is given to the Butterfield Overland Mail Company, the Pony Express, and early day Star Routes.

Subsequent sections cover the movement of the mail over water, by rail, and through the air. The shipping section focuses on steamships, Sea Post Service, and shipwrecks, with extra attention given to the Titanic. The railroad section covers mail "on the fly," streetcar mail, train wrecks, robberies, plus mail delivered by means of pneumatic tubes. The section on aviation details the early years of airmail.

Movement of the mail by means of motorized vehicles encompasses the majority of the remaining sections. A wide variety of vehicles, from the automobiles to modern mail trucks.

Perfectbound with 224 pages and a total of 260 photos and illustrations.

ISBN 0-933449-15-1 ...............$37

Horse-Drawn Mail Vehicles
by James H. Bruns

This is a pictorial scrapbook of vehicles from the early days of postal service in the United States when the pace of mail delivery was largely determined by the speed of horses. The book is separated into three sections: overland vehicles, urban postal vehicles and rural free delivery vehicles.

Section one, overland vehicles, documents the mail wagons, stage coaches and similar vehicles, most of which were owned by private contractors. The second section covers the horse drawn postal vehicles that moved the mail in America's cities after urban mail service first started in 1863. Rural free delivery vehicles, the last section, shows the horse drawn postal vehicles that brought mail to the nation's farms, ranches and rural hamlets after rural free delivery was established in 1896.

Perfectbound with 72 pages and more than 140 illustrations, including many never before published photos.

ISBN 0-933449-28-3 ...............$21

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