Wondrous Times on the Frontier Quotes

“was impossible to hurry any person in California “where time is no object and every man must have his own time to sleep and move about business as though he was pained to move or even breathe.”22”
― Dee Brown, Wondrous Times on the Frontier: America During the 1800s

“Black cowboys were more numerous in frontier days than the popular literature of the time reveals. One of the legendary ones in Texas was Matt Hooks, known to all his friends as Bones. After establishing a reputation as a champion horse breaker, Bones took a job as Pullman porter on the Santa Fe Railroad out of Amarillo.”
― Dee Brown, Wondrous Times on the Frontier: America During the 1800s

“Before the Civil War period, private enterprise carried the mail from the Missouri border to the sparsely settled West, and charged twenty-five cents for a letter. After the federal government took over mail deliveries, the price dropped to two cents and remained there until the inflationary rises of modern times.”
― Dee Brown, Wondrous Times on the Frontier: America During the 1800s

“Mark Twain, a child of the frontier, observed that there was no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.”
― Dee Brown, Wondrous Times on the Frontier: America During the 1800s