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 ...

An original Wells Fargo & Co. stagecoach on display at the bank’s San Francisco headquarters. Paul Sakuma Associated Press file Stagecoach driver John Shine reigned in his horses on July 26, 1875, as ...

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 ...

Before there were planes, trains and automobiles, stagecoaches ruled the roads. The predecessor of today’s buses and taxis, the first stagecoach route was recorded in Scotland in 1610 and ran from ...

He was the most prolific stagecoach robber in American history, a gentleman bandit who never shot anyone, didn’t rob the passengers and even said “please” when he ordered the driver to hand over the ...

No aspect of life changed as much since the 19th century as travel. Like the Native Americans and the French before them, early English-speaking settlers used the rivers to gain access to what would ...

A reader, intrigued by Kaye Ross's story about the Cedar Rapids Area Convention & Visitors Bureau bus tour, called to tell us about the old stage coach stop and inn on E Avenue NW. She often heard the ...

The main east-west stage routes were over a series of parallel roads known as the Genesee or Seneca Turnpike. Stagecoaches ran on regular schedules over these routes daily, besides extras — today ...

Michael Breeding explores dueling in Simpson County, KY, commonly referred to as the Triangular Jog. Michael Breeding explores dueling in Simpson County, KY, commonly referred to as the Triangular Jog ...

In 1776, after much preliminary exploration along the Peninsula, mission outposts were established at the northern tip of the Peninsula (Mission Dolores) and at the southern end of the Peninsula ...

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 ...