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:: Western Express ::
:: December 2025 ::
:: Vol. 75 No. 4 Whole No. 298 ::
:: Unit No. 14, American Philatelic Society ::

Recent Awards
President’s Message Submitted by Rick Mingee
Secretary’s Report – Submitted by Scott Prior
Treasurer’s Report Submitted by Ryan Baum
Route Maps of Express Companies Serving the GibsonvilleRidge, Plumas and Sierra Counties, California – Part 5 By Scott W. Prior
Pony Express – See The Difference – Americana Stamps
The Miscellaneous Other Express, Stage & Freight Companies to the Black Hills By Ken Stach
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WESTERN COVER SOCIETY PUBLICATION AWARDS

Western Express:

APS StampShow 2009 (Pittsburgh, PA) – GOLD

Chicagopex 2009, 2018 (Arlington Heights, IL) – GOLD

Book Publications:

Mails of the Westward Expansion, 1803 To 1861
(authors Steven Walske & Richard C. Frajola)

APS StampShow 2015 (Pittsburgh, PA) – GRAND & GOLD

Crawford Award by the Royal Philatelic Society – 2016
For the most valuable and original contribution to the study and knowledge of philately published in book form goes to Steven C. Walske and Richard Frajola for Mails of the Westward Expansion 1803 – 1861.

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