More postal history from the Southwest- this time it’s Tucson’s turn:

It was a bone-jarring, elbow-jabbing ride through hostile Apache country. At one time it was also about the best way in or out of Tucson. The next time you’re whining about taking off your shoes at the airport, say to yourself: “It could be worse. I could be a passenger on the Jackass Mail.” Named not for the stagecoach passengers’ temperaments but for the fact that they had to get out of the coach and ride mule-back over the route’s roughest spots, the Jackass Mail first lurched into Tucson the summer of 1857.

Mail service helped to put Tucson on the map Arizona Daily Star

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