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

“We had almost an hour wait for lunch,” said Bianca Anderson, the assistant manager, adding that crowds that normally spill out on the former stagecoach stop instead packed into the bar.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2024

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

Major Christian Piercy had fled Philadelphia after his son and an apprentice caught the fever, bribing a stagecoach driver to take him and his family to south Jersey.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy