Henry Wells and William G. Fargo Links

Stagecoach costs routes http://www.wellsfargohistory.com/stagecoach/staging/staging4.htm

Stagecoach outlaws and more http://www.linecamp.com/museums/americanwest/define_the_west/stage_drivers/stage_drivers.html

Primary documents of old west http://www.teacheroz.com/19thcent.htm#documents

Henry Wells

Information from the Wells Fargo Company Website: http://www.wellsfargo.com/about/stories/ch5.jhtml

Information from his hometown: http://www.cgazette.com/towns/Newark/history/988460058998.htm

Encyclopedia entry but this site is slow to load: http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0851821.html

William G. Fargo

http://www.wellsfargo.com/about/stories/ch6.jhtml

http://www.wellsfargo.com/about/150th/mediakit/facts_info/facts/index.jhtml

His mansion http://www.andrle.com/markers/mark146.htm

http://www.famousamericans.net/williamgeorgefargo/

All Sorts of Information about the company, the "bad guys" and the good (????) guys who hunted them down:

Company

Take an "Extra-Credit" visit to the Wells Fargo Museum downtown and write about what you learned. It's a quick trip on MetroRail, but the museum is only open M-F:

Wells Fargo Museum, Los Angeles
333 South Grand Ave.
213 253-7166
M-F, 9-5

Wow! What an interesting collection of characters! What was "Charlie's Secret"? 

http://www.wellsfargo.com/about/stories/stories_overview.jhtml

http://www.financialhistory.org/wfargo/wf_highl.htm

http://www.coinmall.com/CSNA/art020.htm

http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/old_west/44339

http://www.historyforsale.com/html/prodetails.asp?prodid=1630&start=1

http://members.aol.com/Gibson0817/WellsFargo.htm

http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/brooklyn/community/wellsfargohist.htm

Bad Guys...

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/4743/bbart.html

http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/bart.html

 http://www.linecamp.com/museums/americanwest/western_clubs/wells_fargo/wells_fargo.html

http://www.wellsfargo.com/about/stories/stories_overview.jhtml

Traveling on a Stagecoach...

Advice for Traveling on a Stagecoach http://www.wellsfargo.com/about/stories/ch1.jhtml

A look at the trails

Newhall: http://employees.oxy.edu/jerry/beale.htm