It will tell tales of frontier gunfights, buffalo hunts, Indian fights, trail drives, and stagecoaches. |
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There were skirmishes with Indians, and masked brigands, the so-called road agents, held up stagecoaches and sometimes murdered the occupants. |
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Beginning in 1838, the federal government transferred the mails from stagecoaches to railroads. |
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My love for horses and deep appreciation for the history behind Wells Fargo's stagecoaches made the job a natural fit. |
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Between 1843 and 1852, for example, the Paris-Orleans company transported stagecoaches on trains. |
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The Tunis Ordinary was a popular rest stop for stagecoaches and wagons heading westward. |
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Then she drew the curtains and arranged the sectional sofa protectively around us like stagecoaches. |
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Wyatt rode shotgun for Wells Fargo stagecoaches and moonlighted as a gambler. |
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The town's history is tied closely to the routes traveled by stagecoaches and the extension of railroads. |
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Some 700 Royal Mail coaches and more than 3,000 stagecoaches crisscrossed the country. |
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She talks about rifle-bearing troops escorting stagecoaches, bullock teams bringing wool down to the coast and families hiding their gold in deep mud. |
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It carried passengers in new stagecoaches and freight from the mines using twelve-mule teams and prairie schooners pulled by sixteen oxen plus six spare animals. |
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Although railroads made the stagecoaches, freight wagons, and steamboats unprofitable and obsolete, virtually no one mourned the passing of these conveyances. |
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The main bridge out of town to the north, it carried stagecoaches between Carlisle and Kendal, and even Bonnie Prince Charlie's army in 1745, says Mr Marsh. |
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