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 ...

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 freeways, before even the railroad, there was Gila Bend — a lifeline carved into the Arizona desert. Born as a water stop for stagecoaches on the Butterfield Overland Mail route, this ...

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 ...

CUMRU – For years, William M. Witwer had tended to a 19th-century mile marker along Lancaster Pike in Cumru Township. As recently as July, Witwer waded into a thicket along the road and cleared dense ...

The Butterfield Overland Mail Co. celerity wagon transferring mail to more comfortable local stages. From Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, Oct. 23, 1858. Courtesy image The fastest route to the ...

Wells Fargo's horse-drawn stagecoaches rolled into western Iowa in 1872, opening its first office in the state in Harrison County. A decade later, the banking and express services company had ...

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 ...