1860s. Original unused check from Holladay Overland Mail & Express Co., 3 ½ x 9. Virginia City, Montana - 1860's. Check with great vignettes of a Stage and two Mountain Men. 
Benjamin "Ben" Holladay  was an American transportation businessman responsible for creating the Overland Stage to California during the height of the  California Gold Rush. Ben Holladay created a stagecoach empire and he is known in history as the "Stagecoach King". A native of Kentucky, he also was hired as a private courier to General Alexander Doniphan of Missouri. Doniphan refused point-blank to carry out orders to kill the Mormons during the 1838 Mormon War in Missouri. Through Holladay's friendship with Brigham Young, Holladay established a profitable freighting contract to Salt Lake City.His transportation empire later included steamships and railroads in Oregon
Light discoloration, more noticeable on back ( though not as pronounced as scan suggests), irregularly trimmed top edge, o/w VG condition.