Butterfield Overland Mail

Artifacts from Butterfield Overland Mail Road in Loving County near ghost town of Old Mentone on east side of Pecos River.

Noted field researcher Joe Allen tracing the Butterfield Overland Mail Road in Ward County. On east side of Pecos River near Barstow.

Marker commemorating several stagecoach drivers at Point of Rocks on Butterfield Overland Mail Road. Located west of Fort Davis in Jeff Davis County.

Field researcher Joe Allen at marker near Pope’s Crossing on west side of Pecos River. Overland Mail Company used the crossing from September 1858 to May 1859.

Field researcher Joe Allen on trace of Butterfield Overland Mail Road in lower end of Quitman Canyon. Quitman Mountains in background. Located in Hudspeth County.

Marker where Butterfield Overland Mail Road crosses Interstate 20 near Tye, Texas. Just west of Abilene in Taylor County.

Carlsbad, NM historian Harvey Hicks and Loving County Judge Skeet Lee Jones at Butterfield’s Pope’s Camp Station. Located near New Mexico line at Red Bluff Lake.

The Ultimate Texas Road Trip! Following the Butterfield Overland Mail Road across Texas for 25 years, from the Red River to El Paso.

Ruins of Butterfield’s Llano Estacado Station in Reagan County. Stage stop also known as Staked Plains Station and Middle Mail Station.

Wide trace of Butterfield Road in Ward County near Great Falls of the Pecos River. An irrigated farming project destroyed the falls in the early twentieth century.