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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article appeared in Pioneer Trails, Vol. 2, No. 1, July 1977, and is available in its entirety at Heritage Station museum). In the days of fast and comfortable transportation, most people would ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...