Background
Settle, Raymond W. was born on March 11, 1888 in Pleasant Gap, Missouri, United States. Son of Charles Angelo and Emily Luvina (Rogers) Settle.
(From Missouri westward to California three men ruled a ve...)
From Missouri westward to California three men ruled a veritable empire on wheels in the 1850's. Theirs was a military freighting monopoly that developed into a flourishing stagecoach, express, and mail business that covered the country and later branched off into numerous mercantile, banking, and real estate ventures along the overland trail. To them, too, goes credit for founding the Pony Express. William H. Russell was sanguine and reckless. William Bradford Wadell was cool and calculating .Alexander Majors was a conservative and God-fearing man. Here is the story of this colorful trio, their rise to prestige and prosperity, and their eventual ruin. Even though these partners suffered bankruptcy, and the empire on wheels built at tremendous expenditure of energy and money passed to the control of others, the importance of the wagon trains of Russell, Majors and Waddell was far reaching. These men did more than any others to bridge the wide gap between the Missouri River and the Golden West in those important years between the Mexican and Civil Wars.
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( The story of the Pony Express, which carried transconti...)
The story of the Pony Express, which carried transcontinental mail from April 3, 1860 to October 24, 1861, is one of the most invigorating and satisfying episodes in American history. Saddles and Spurs: The Pony Express Saga brings together a storehouse of information about this brilliant operation. Projected against an account of the historical background—the great overland mail issue, the freighting and the stagecoach business, the development of the telegraph and the Pacific railroad—is the narrative of the Pony Express's organization and the laying out of its route; biographical sketches of the founders, company personnel, and riders; and a list and description of the stations. While undertaking their exhaustive research, the authors collected some three hundred photographs, of which more than fifty of the best appear in this volume.
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Settle, Raymond W. was born on March 11, 1888 in Pleasant Gap, Missouri, United States. Son of Charles Angelo and Emily Luvina (Rogers) Settle.
AB, William Jewell College, 1922.
Pastor, First Church, Erie, Kansas, 1912-1913; pastor, Neodesha, Kansas, 1913-1915; pastor, Beaumont Church, Kansas City, Missoury, 1915-1921; pastor, Prairie View and Drexel, Missouri, churches, 1921-1922; pastor, First Church, Mount Ayr, Iowa., 1922-1923; pastor, Slater, Missouri, 1923-1934; pastor, Lamar, Colorado, 1935-1942; pastor, First Church, Lexington, Missouri then pastor, South Fork (Colorado) Community Church, Emanuel Chapel chaplain, Veterans Center.
( The story of the Pony Express, which carried transconti...)
(From Missouri westward to California three men ruled a ve...)
(This book is a Story of Russell, Majors and Waddell)
(Dust jacket chipped at the extremities. Illustrated. Incl...)
(The Pony Express Saga)
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Moderator Lafayette County Baptist Association, 1942-1944. Director Lexington Chamber of Commerce, 1944-1946. Member Lexington Post-war Planning Commission, 1943.
Full time secretary Cameron Chamber of Commerce. Member John Phelps Fruit Memorial Commission, 1944;member Tri-County Baptist District Board, 1943-1944. President Lexington Ministerial Alliance, 1943-1945.
Board of managers Colorado Baptist Convention Young Men’s Christian Association, secretary World War, Great Lakes Naval Training Station, Detroit Naval Training Station and Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois, 1918-1919. Member American Pioneer Trails Association, Missouri Writer's Guild (president 1929-1930, award 1949), Missouri History Society, Missouri Baptist History Society, Kansas History Society, Colorado History Society, Colorado Authors League, Sons of the American Revolution, Western History Association, Masons, Kappa Sigma, Pi Kappa Delta.
Married Mary Anna Lund, August 25, 1914. Children: Pauline Marie Settle Sharp, Marilyn Ray Settle Bricker.