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| Isaac
Van Dorsey Mossman A Pony Expressman's Recollections |
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"The company was generally known as Mossman's Express, although for a short time it was actually Mossman & Miller's Express. When (Joaquin) Miller left, I took in as partners J.C. Franklin, Thomas Paulson, Put Smith and one John McBride. We did a good business. For some time Franklin stayed in Portland, bought gold dust and spent money freely on himsefl and wife. McBride rode as messenger between Florence and Lewiston. One night he gambled off $2000 of the company's money and then skipped to Montana. |
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| One disaster after another overtook me, and in June, 1863, two years after my first trip into Oron Fino, I was forced to close out to Wells, Fargo & Co. Afterwards I made a few trips to Granite Creek, Elk City, and Auburn, on Powder River; but in the spring of 1863 I quit the express business only about $1000 ahead for my two years' work." | |||
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| Isaac
V. Mossman (circa 1860) |
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| Joaquin
Miller - Partner & Poet |
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| Time
Line of Isaac Van Dorsey Mossman |
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| A Pony
Expressman's Recollections - An Outside Link to Roxann
Gess-Smith's Oregon website |
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