[[2]] Root and Connelley's Overland Stage to California.
[[3]] So called because it was about half way between the Missouri River and Denver.
[[4]] Reports as to the precise hour of starting do not all agree. It was probably late in the afternoon or early in the evening, no later than 6:30.
[[5]] Authorities differ somewhat as to the personnel of the first trip; also as to the number of letters carried.
[[6]] On account of the Mormon outbreak and the troubles of 1857-58, there was at this time much ill-feeling in Congress against Utah. Matters were finally smoothed out and the bill in question was of course dropped. Utah was loyal to the Union throughout the Civil War.
[[7]] Eastbound the first rider carried about seventy letters.