A couple weeks ago I wrote about overland stagecoach operations through Tucson. This week I'll tell the story of how Tucson stagecoach pioneers provided service to Southern Arizona mining areas and ...

In the collection of the Broome County Historical Society is the cowhide coat of the last of the stagecoach drivers in the county. Note, I said cowhide and not leather. It is a black-and-white hide ...

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Anybody who’s seen an old western movie knows how a stagecoach robbery went, right? A desperate driver pushes his galloping horses across the open prairie while someone onboard exchanges rapid gunfire ...

Wells Fargo got its start in 1852 and focused on banking and rapid long-distance delivery. It's the delivery part where Wells Fargo's iconic stagecoaches hail from, and back then they cost about ...

GREEN TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WKRC) - A Green Township building that's so old it was once a stop for stagecoaches is being torn down. The Twin Lanterns' building was built in 1820. A century later, it was a ...

Before railroads reached Aspen there were five different freight and stagecoach routes to railheads on the other side of the Continental Divide. Each route had its proponents, depending on the size of ...

After the discovery of gold in 1876, a human stampede of gold seekers “Headed for the Hills” and Deadwood, SD. Prospectors filtered into the gulches and canyons from nearly every direction, arriving ...

Early residents of Tustin City measured travel time in days and weeks. Depending on horses and wagons, they found traveling to towns as close by as Santa Ana and Anaheim could take hours. A trip to ...

He was the most prolific stagecoach robber in American history, a gentleman bandit who never shot anyone, didn’t rob the passengers and even said “please” when he ordered the driver to hand over the ...