stagecoach
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Consider Joseph Morgan III. Born in 1780 into a Welsh immigrant family that became successful Massachusetts farmers, he sold the farm and invested in a Hartford, Conn., coffeehouse and stagecoach line.
From Barron's ● Jan. 13, 2026
There was an overland route from St. Louis and Memphis, Tenn., to San Francisco that required a roughly 22-day journey by horse-drawn stagecoach.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025
After it opened in 1879 in an old Army barracks, thousands of Native American children were sent by train and stagecoach to Carlisle.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
When a band of outlaws overtakes the stagecoach, Brett Gelman, as a whisky peddler, recognizes one and observes, in a ridiculous faux-British accent, “You’re Tommy Walsh.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2023
Perhaps the constant jarring in the driver's seat of a lumbering stagecoach causes a concussion on the site of the old damage.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
By 1858, the famous Butterfield stagecoaches were ferrying the mail through the cut over the pass, hazarding a vertiginous angle comparable with San Francisco’s Lombard Street, without the switchbacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
Mr. Crytzer’s narrative hums along with the National Road’s traffic as he colorfully describes Pony Express riders, stagecoaches, Conestoga wagons and many thousands of migrants wending ever westward, feeding the nation’s economic and territorial growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
The road once carried stagecoaches during the Gold Rush, twisting its way through what is now a national forest and an area of the Sierra Nevada known for snowmobiling.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 31, 2021
History lovers will adore the nearby Pioneer Yosemite History Center with preserved buildings moved from other parts of the park and an 1857 covered bridge used by stagecoaches coming into Yosemite in the early days.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 20, 2019
A factory was a hundred stagecoaches all inside one’s skull, banging their wheels against the bone.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
