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 ...

As the second half of the nineteenth-century rolled along, highwaymen in the Wild West had been robbing stagecoaches for over fifty years. There had been over five-thousand cases of stagecoach ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stagecoach driver John Shine reigned in his horses on July 26, 1875, as an armed man stepped out of hiding into the road between Copperopolis and Milton in California “Throw down the box,” the ...