Western Expresses | Index

San Francisco – Gateway to the Gold Fields

Adams & Company – Sep, 1849 to Feb 23, 1855
Alta Express Company – Jul, 1857 to Nov, 1858
American Express – Feb 12, 1857 to Sep 24, 1857
Angiers’ Express – 1861 to 1864+
Anthony & Company – 1852 to Jul, 1853

Becker & Company – 1852 to 1853
Beekman’s Express – 1855 to Nov 16, 1858 and Dec 31, 1859 to 1863
Berford & Company – Late 1849 to 1858
Berthoud’s Express – circa 1869
Blake & Company – Sep, 1855 to Jan, 1859
Bowers Express – Late 1849 to Oct, 1851
Browns Express – Early 1851 to Apr, 1853
Browns/Adams – Apr, 1853 to Feb, 1855
Brown & Maguire’s Express – Early 1860’s
Buchanan & Co.’s Express – Dec, 1866 to 1867
Burdin’s Express – 1871
Byam’s Express – Oct, 1855 to Jul, 1856

COC&PP – Feb 13, 1860 to Mar 21, 1862
Chase’s Express – 1857 to 1863
Cherokee Express – 1854 to 1864
Cheyenne & Black Hills Express – Feb, 1876 to 1878
Cram, Rogers, & Co’s Express – 1851 to Mar 27, 1855
Crary’s Stage & Express Co. – Aug, 1873 to Winter, 1873
Crawford’s Middle Fork Express – 1857 to 1859
Crooks Express – 1858 to Feb, 1860

Davis & Bros. Express – 1851 to 1852
Deming & Walls Express – ca 1856 to 1857
Denver & Rio Grande Express – Jun, 1880 to 1903
Devils Gate Express – 1861 to (1865)
Dodge & Co.’s Express – Oct, 1850 to Aug, 1851
Doherty’s Half Moon Bay Express – 1864 to (1865)
Drake’s Express – 1859 to 1860
Dugan and Wall Express – Apr, 1858 to (1863)

Edgar & Burke’s Canyon City Express – Fall 1864
English’s Express – early 1864
Estill & Co – June, 1850 to August, 1850
Eureka Express – 1870 to 1893
Eureka, Rohnerville & Hydesville Express – 1870
Evans & Co.’s Express – 1862 to 1863
The Frank D. Everts Expresses – 1850 to 1862
Everts & Co. Express – 1850 to Jun, 1852
Everts, Snell & Company – Jun, 1852 to Jan 25, 1854
F. D. Everts & Co. – Jan 25, 1854 to Feb, 1855
Everts/Adams – Feb, 1855 to Mar, 1855
Everts, Davis & Cos. Express – May 10, 1855 to Aug, 1856
Everts, Hannon & Wilson & Co. – Aug, 1856 to Sep, 1856
Everts, Wilson & Co. Daily Express – Sep, 1856 to 1862

Fargo & Co.’s Express – 1852 to 1853
Farley’s Express – 1855 to 1857
Fast Freight Express Co. – 1864 to 1865
Ford’s Express – Aug, 1850 to early 1852
Francis & Co.’s Express – Nov, 1859 to May, 1862
Freeman’s Express – Nov, 1850 to Nov, 1851
Freeman & Company – Mar, 1855 to Late 1859

Garland’s Express – 1854 to 1872
Gibbs Express – 1854 to 1859
Gillpatrick’s Express – Sep, 1874 to Feb, 1878
Grays California Express – 1850 to 1851
Greathouse & Slicer – Fall 1855 to 1857
Greene’s Copper City Express – 1864 to 1865
Greenhood & Newbauer – 1856 to 1867
Green’s Express – 1850 to 1854
Gregory’s Express – Apr, 1850 to Nov, 1852
Gregory & English’s Express – Apr, 1866 to Mar, 1868

Hall & Allen’s Express – 1858 to 1859
Hammond & Wilson’s Express – 1874
Harrier’s Express – 1864 to 1865
Harrison’s Susanville & Goose Lake Express – 1872
J. Hawes & Co.’s Express – Dec, 1854 to Sep, 1855
Hawley & Co.’s Express – Jan, 1850 to Nov 11, 1850
Haydon’s Express – 1856
Haywood Express Company – 1868 to 1869
Hervey’s Express – 1858 to 1860
Hinckley & Co’s. Express – 1860 to May 11, 1861
J. W. Hoag & Co’s Contra Costa Express – late 1855 to 1858
Hoffman & Co.’s Express – Feb, 1850 to Apr, 1851
Hogan & Company’s Express – 1874 to 1876
Holladay Overland Mail & Express Co. – 1862 to Nov 1, 1866
Holland, Morley & Co.’s Express – Early 1862 to Jul, 1863
Holland & Wheeler’s Express – Late 1862 to Late 1863
Hopkinson’s Express – 1862 to 1864 and 1865 to 1867
Horn’s Tri-Weekly Express – 1874 to 1877
Hunter & Company – Mar, 1851 to Jun, 1854

Ish & Hailey’s Express – Fall, 1863 to 1865

G. P. Johnson’s Express – 1858 to 1859
Jones & Co. Express – 1851 to 1852
Jones & Edgars Express – 1863 to 1864
Jones & Russell’s Express – Jul 9, 1859 to Feb 23, 1860

Keene & Hurley’s Express – 1888
Kennedy & Co.’s Express – 1862 to 1864
Kenson’s Owens River Express – 1863 to 1864

Lamping & Co’s. Express – Nov, 1865 to Aug, 1866
Langton’s Express – Feb, 1850 to 1864
Langton & Brother’s Express – Nov, 1853 to Feb, 1855
Latta’s Mountain Express – 1866 to 1867
Leavenworth City & Pikes Peak Express – Feb, 1859 to Jul, 1859
Leland’s Express – Jul, 1854
Leland & McCombe’s Express – 1853 to Jun, 1854
Leland & McComb’s Southern Express – Aug, 1854 to Oct, 1855
Lewis’s Cherokee Flat Express – (1864) to (1877)

Martins’s Express – 1884 to 1886
Mead & Clarke’s Express – 1864 to 1866
Mead & Davis Letter Express – 1864
Miller & Co.’s Express – 1854 to 1855
Miners’ Loon Creek Express – May 26, 1870 to Jul 20, 1870
Moore’s Flat and Eureka Express
Morley, Caulkins & Co.’s Express – 1853 to 1861
Mumby & Co.’s Express – Apr 30, 1851 to Jun 12, 1851

Nevada City and Meadow Lake Express – 1866 to 1867
Nevada, Washington and Omega Express – 1871
Newell & Co.’s Express – Oct 22, 1851 to Jul, 1853
Nichols & Co.’s Express – Oct, 1857 to Jul, 1858
Noisy Carriers River Route – 1850 to 1857
Norman & Grant’s Express – 1868

Organ & Tibbett’s Express – 1865 to 1868
Oroville & Quincy Express – 1874 to Unknown

Pacific Express Company – Mar, 1855 to Apr, 1857
Pacific Union Express Company – 1868 to 1869
Palmer & Co.’s Express – Mar, 1850 to Dec, 1851
Pauly & Nohrman’s Express – 1864 to 1868
N. O. Pauly’s Express – 1868
R. Penman’s Express – 1869 to 1882
Pescadero & Half Moon Bay Stage Co.’s Express – 1865 to 1866
Peterson’s Lower California Express – Mar, 1863 to Jul, 1863
Phillip’s Express – 1860 to 1861
Pioneer Express – 1853 to late 1850’s
Pony Express – Apr 3, 1860 to Oct 26, 1861
Prindle’s Express – 1860 to 1867

Raum’s Express – 1871 to 1872
Reynolds & Company – Jan, 1850 to Oct 9, 1851
Reynolds, Todd & Co. – Oct 9, 1851 to Apr 22, 1852
Rhodes & Lusks Express – 1852 to 1854
Rhodes & Company Express – 1854 to Jul, 1855
Rhodes & Whitney’s Express – Jul, 1855 to Feb, 1857
River Express – 1893 to 1901
Robinson’s (W. H.) Express – 1852 to 1854
Rockfellow & Co.’s Express – May, 1863 to Oct, 1863
Rowe & Company – 1854 to 1855
Rumrill & Company – Aug, 1853 to Apr, 1855
Rundell & Jones – 1863
Rutherford & Co.’s Express – Dec, 1866 to [Aug, 1867]

Sacramento River Express – 1871 to Unknown
Salmon River & Nez Perces Express (Wells Fargo) – Early 1863 to May 17, 1863
Schoch’s Copper City Express – 1863 to 1865
Singer & Company – mid 1854 to 1855
Singer, Meek & Co.’s Express – 1857
Singer & Morrow’s Express – Fall 1855 to Fall 1857
Stewart & Jones Express – Summer 1865
Stolp’s Express – 1854
J. A. Stone’s Express – 1864 to Feb, 1865
Swart & Co’s Express – May, 1854 to Dec, 1854
Swift & Co.’s Express – Early 1855 to 1859

Taggart’s Express – 1866 to 1871
Taylor’s Express – Apr, 1851 to Apr, 1852
Thomes & Skaden’s Express – Aug, 1870 to Mar, 1874
Thompson & Co.’s Express – 1857
Tickner’s Express – 1862 to 1872
Tinnin & Owen’s Express – 1867 to 1868
Todd & Co’s Express – Jul 13, 1850 to Oct 9, 1851
Todd’s Express – Apr 22, 1852 to Sep 1, 1853
Todd & Bryans Express – Early 1850 to Jul 13, 1850
Tracy & Company – 1859 to Nov, 1863
Tucker’s Siskiyou Express – 1868

Vera’s Express – 1855 to 1857

Washburn’s Express – 1856 to 1857
Wells Fargo & Co.’s Express – Mar 18, 1852 to late 1890’s
WF&Co – Virginia City Pony Express – Aug, 1862 to Mar, 1865
Wharton’s Express – 1863 to 1864
Wheeler’s Express – Late 1863 to Early 1864
Wheeler, Rutherford & Company – Early 1864 to 1865
Whiting & Company – 1857-1868
Whitney’s Nevada Express – 1854
G. H. Wines Express – 1855 to 1857
Wood’s Express – Late 1864(?) to May, 1868

Butterfield Overland Mail – Sep 15, 1858 to Mar 1, 1861
Chorpenning Route – May, 1851 to May 11, 1860
Chorpenning Route – May, 1851 to May 11, 1860
Carried by Snowshoe Thompson over the Sierras
McLaughlin & Co. U.S. Mail Line – 1856 to 1857
Nicaragua Route – Sep 14, 1852 to ~August, 1855
Tehauntepec Route – Oct 27, 1858 to Oct 10, 1859
Steamer Winfield Scott – 1851 to 1853
Sacramento to the East Coast

Black’s Express
Grays Express – 1862 to 1863
Greathouse & Slicers Express
Eureka Express Company
Langton & Bros. Express
D. W. Harrier’s Express
Rhodes & Lusks Express
Rhodes & Whitneys Express