BUFFALO BILL WHITE BEAVER FRANK POWELL PONY BOB 1884 ILLUSTRATED POLICE NEWS 906

Description: This is a ORIGINAL SCARCE ISSUE NOT A REPRINT THE ILLUSTRATED POLICE NEWS #906 ILLUSTRATED POLICE NEWS 906 03 08 1884 - YouTube WATCH VIDEO FOR THE VERY BEST DESCRIPTION I CAN OFFER!! CLICK PHOTO TWICE TO VIEW VIDEO!!! This issue is in very good condition view the video for the absolute best description. The pages are tan to off white colored and suppl, pages have slight edge wear and age staining as expected with a book that is 140 years old. (See scan for further details.) If you have a particular issues or newspapers you need for your collection drop us a message through Ebay .The Illustrated Police News was a weekly illustrated newspaper which was one of the earliest Yellow Journalism tabloids. It featured sensational, bloody, racist and melodramatic reports and illustrations of murders and hangings and was a direct descendant of the execution broadsheets of the 18th century. Robert "Pony Bob" Haslam (January 1840, London, England – February 29, 1912, Chicago, Illinois) was a Pony Express rider in the American Old West. He came to the United States as a teenager and was hired by Bolivar Roberts, helped build the stations, and was assigned the run from Friday's Station (State Line) to Buckland Station near Fort Churchill, 75 miles to the east. Perhaps his greatest ride, 120 miles in 8 hours and 20 minutes while wounded, was an important contribution to the fastest trip ever made by the Pony Express. The message carried was Abraham Lincoln's Inaugural Address. After the Pony Express, Haslam returned as an employee of Wells, Fargo & Company, which operated its own enterprise between San Francisco and Virginia City. He later served as a Deputy United States Marshall in Salt Lake City. In his final years he worked in the Hotel Congress in Chicago. He made a personal business card with a sketch of himself as a Pony Express rider at the age of twenty and entertained guests with stories of his adventures. Haslam is credited with having made the longest round trip ride of the Pony Express. He had received the eastbound mail (probably the May 10 mail from San Francisco) at Friday's Station. At Buckland's Station his relief rider was so badly frightened over the Indian threat that he refused to take the mail. Haslam agreed to take the mail all the way to Smith's Creek for a total distance of 190 miles without a rest. After a rest of nine hours, he retraced his route with the westbound mail. At Cold Springs he found that Indians had raided the place, killing the station keeper and running off all of the stock. Finally he reached Buckland's Station, completing a 380-mile round trip, the longest on record for the Pony Express. Haslam continued to work as a rider for Wells Fargo and Company after the U.S. Civil War, scouted for the U.S. Army well into his fifties, and later accompanied his good friend Buffalo Bill Cody on a diplomatic mission to negotiate the surrender of Chief Sitting Bull in December 1890. He drifted in and out of public mention but eventually died in Chicago during the winter of 1912 (age 72) in deep poverty after suffering a stroke. It is reported that Buffalo Bill paid for Pony Bob's headstone at Mount Greenwood Cemetery on Chicago's far south side; however, the business records indicate it was paid for by a family member. A map to the grave site is available from the cemetery office during regular business hours (all week, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM). I am not a grader so I make sure the scans are close and as detailed as I can make them but that the video is the best description. We have many other we have or will be listing if you have any questions just e-mail me through EBAY. This is one of 800 "Beadle's Dime Library, Nick Carter Library, Old Sleuth Library, &"The Shadow Magazines" as well as several thousand dime novels we will be placing on EBAY over this year. Any questions or special requests please email us. We always try to list any items that are requested as quickly if we can. This book is one of a large collection we are placing on our Ebay store of rarely available items and books. The book is one of the many rarely seen items that we will be offering over the next few months from a collectors estate sale. Once these are gone how long before you will see them come up again. Once a collector buys them they go right back into a vault somewhere. We always take into consideration a customers history of buying from us when addressing "BEST OFFER" option. We will respond to you within the allotted time but if it has just been listed we will give it the full time period to allow others to make similar offers or purchase. We list many, many items that may be "One of a kind" or simply "One of a kind on the market". These items usually are placed in collections which are not seen again on the market until once again sold by collectors. If you collect, you realize that is a once in a lifetime occurrence for collectors..... POLICE GAZETTE / NEWS BOX

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