Texas Stagecoach History Resources         Lists of Texas Stage Lines     Stage Operators in Texas in 1861 (Texas Almanac) . The 1861 Almanac lists 31 stage routes operating that year.                 Stagecoach History Links     "Stagecoach Lines", Handbook of Texas.     "Risher and Hall Stage Lines", Handbook of Texas.                 Further Reading     Texas Almanac for the years 1857-1871. Many of these years included lists of stage routes and operators.           August Santleben, A Texas Pioneer (New York and Washington: Neale, 1910).           LeRoy R. Hafen, Overland Mail, 1849-1869 (Cleveland: Clark, 1926).           Fauntleroy, J. D. "Old Stage Routes of Texas," Frontier Times, July, 1929, Vol. 6.           Harry M. Konwiser, Texas Republic Postal System (New York: Lindquist, 1933).           Waterman L. Ormsby, The Butterfield Overland Mail (San Marino, California: Huntington Library, 1942).           Alex L. ter Braake, Texas: The Drama of Its Postal Past (Fredericksburg, Maryland: American Philatelic Society, 1970).           Robert H. Thonhoff, San Antonio Stage Lines, 1847-1881, (El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1971).           Wayne R. Austerman, Sharps Rifles and Spanish Mules: The San Antonio-El Paso Mail, 1851-1881 (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1985).           Barton, Barbara. Stagecoach Lines & Freighters of West Texas. Knickerbocker, TX: Barton's Books, 2008.