The advent of thestagecoach marked a new era as much in advance of the old as was the day of the steamboat in advance of that of the barge and brig of early days.
If the pack-horse man's side of the question was not advocated with equally marvelous arguments in America we can be sure there was no lack of debate on the question whether the stagecoach was a sign of advancement or of deterioration.
The blazed tree gave way to the mile-stone and the pannier and saddle-bag to the rumbling stagecoach and the chaise.
The stagecoach heralded the new age of road-building, but these new macadamized roads were few and far between; many roadways were widened and graded by states or counties, but they remained dirt roads; a few plank roads were built.
As the railroad progressed, the overland coaches plied between the ends of the two sections, their runs growing shorter and shorter till, when the road was finished, the overland stagecoach was discontinued.
Breakdowns and upsets were common, and in rainy weather a traveler by stagecoach was fortunate if he did not have to help the driver pull the wheels out of the mud.
One does not like to think that he has passed away with the stagecoach and the weekly news-letter; and that henceforth we are to be confronted only by the stony glare of the Intelligent Reading Public.
It is a relief to get away from such a world, and, leaving the fine gentleman behind, to take the rumbling stagecoach to the estates of Sir Roger de Coverley.
Professor McMaster says: "The stagecoach was little better than a huge covered box mounted on springs.
Avery's home her headquarters, Susan carried her plea for the ballot to settlements far from the railroads, traveling by stagecoach over rough lonely roads through magnificent scenery.
Grace shook hands with Ike Fairweather and whispered to him that she would give him a check for whatever he considered the Deadwood stagecoach worth.
I think the owner got a good idea from us, and that he will make the Deadwood stagecoach trip a regular attraction for tourists.
Grace, eager to get the old stagecoach driver started talking of his experiences.
Let’s stir up those people in the coach and show them what riding in a Deadwood stagecoach really means,” eagerly urged Grace Harlowe.
Leaving the town quickly behind them, the stagecoach swept out into the open.
Hippy removed his coat and assisted in the operations, while the girls inspected the stagecoach and stowed away their belongings.
Next time I shore’ll look t’other way,” avers the oldstagecoach driver.
Following the meal, Elfreda questioned the old stagecoach driver about the country where they were encamped.
Hippy will arrange that matter, and make a deal with the stagecoach owner after he has carefully looked the old wagon over to make certain that it will go through the trip without falling apart.
That is the kind of coach they used in the old stagecoach days of the early west,” Elfreda Briggs explained.
A few moments later the stagecoach drew out to one side of the trail and stopped.
By now the rest of the Overton girls, having found their courage, had crept from the stagecoach and were hiding behind it, peering out through troubled eyes.
Great stagecoach lines operated here, known as widely in their day as the railways are now, their proprietors boasting over rival lines in points of speed, safety, and appointments.
A regular stagecoach and freight line was maintained to Deadwood, S.
The day following the great stagecoach robbery found the patient proprietor of Collinson's Mill calm and untroubled in his usual seclusion.
There was anticipation and accomplishment twice a day; and as Key and Collinson rode up to the express-office, the express-wagon was standing before the door ready to start to meet the stagecoach at the cross-roads three miles away.
This train that created so much interest was practically like Stephenson's English trains, being made up of a small locomotive, a tender, and two carriages constructed by fastening stagecoach bodies on top of railroad trucks.
Then in addition there were the stagecoach drivers who foresaw that if the railroads supplanted coaches they would no longer be needed.
This city, because of its geographical position, was a great stagecoach center, having lines that radiated from it into the interior in almost every direction.
Oh," laughed his father, "a few hours' adventure like that is quite a different affair from making a stagecoach journey.
But just as it is an improvement over the train, so the train was a mighty advance over the stagecoach of olden days.
I'm afraid it will be a moonlight ride at this rate," laughed Mr. Bobbsey, as the stagecoach started to rattle on.
Mr. Bobbsey, noticing how rickety the old stagecoach was.
The capital invested in these railways was enormous beyond the imagination of the men of the stagecoach generation.
In one instance a struggle between two stagecoach lines in Indiana resulted in carrying passengers from Richmond to Cincinnati for fifty cents.
Yet I sometimes have imagined that today the stagecoach business in England is a little stagey--many things are done to heighten effects.
I am sorry I did not live in stagecoach times--things are now so dead and dreary and prosaic.
Could his sensations have been analyzed, they might have coincided with those of Padre Antonio's on beholding his protegée when she stepped from the stagecoach on her return from the convent.
I stared after the stagecoach until it was swallowed up in distance.
Then she saw and recognized the parson's face, for Mother Tubbs had been at the Wild Rose Hotel the day before when the stagecoach had arrived.
The stagecoach lurched around a corner, and the raw, red bench of the riverbank came into view.
We'll freight in our supplies with mules and communicate with the more effete centers of civilization by stagecoach for some time to come I reckon.
In the above we note the great development that had taken place in this section, a "stagecoach road" and two towns, Abingdon and Wythe Courthouse, being mentioned for the first time.
This shows steadily advancing development in transportation, for earlier there had been references to wagon roads, then to stagecoach roads and now to a turnpike with the regular tollgates to provide funds for maintenance.
A road over which a heavy stagecoach could travel was a big advance over the bridle paths and "rolling roads" of the preceding century.
He whittled silently for a time, then as he looked up his glance fell on the stagecoach in the yard, and he turned from it to Jack Hicks.
The English stagecoachmarked a sharp advance in the progress of passenger transportation.
The stagecoach was established in England as a public conveyance early in the sixteenth century, and soon regular routes were developed throughout the country.
Consisting of the body of a stagecoach it accommodated approximately twenty-five passengers, of which number six found accommodations within, while the others perched on the exterior and the roof of the vehicle.
Now for the first time a closed vehicle afforded travelers comparative comfort during their journey, and in the stagecoach with its definite schedule may be seen the early prototype of the modern passenger railroad.
For three centuries the stagecoach slowly developed, and its popularity carried it to the continent and later to America.
This early adaption of the stagecoach to the rapidly developed demand for passenger service necessitated the coinage of a new terminology, and it is not surprising that many words of stagecoach days remained.
In 1877 it was a stagecoachstop on Otto Mears' toll road from Silverton to Lake City.
The "city" that called forth his ire was Gate City, or Golden Gate City, a string of four or five cabins, at the mouth of Tucker Creek on the stagecoach road to Central City.
Grant stepped from his stagecoach into the Teller House.
Continuing up Henson Creek in the direction that the stagecoach used to travel from Lake City to Ouray, the visitor will come to the ruins of Rose's Cabin.
Their location was beside the stagecoach road from Georgetown to Montezuma.
The Governor traveled by stagecoach from Williamsburg to Germanna.
He visited Fredericksburg to bid his mother farewell and traveled via stagecoachthrough Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania to New York.
In 1860 the same firm that sent the first stagecoach over the prairie from Leavenworth to Denver, ran a pony express from the Missouri to the Pacific.
The consequences were the founding of Denver, the establishment of a stagecoach line from the Missouri to Denver, the pony express to the Pacific; the overland coach; and the Pacific Railroad.
The stagecoach was little better than a huge covered box mounted on springs.
The new era of rural delivery brings a return, in one sense, of the old stagecoach days.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stagecoach" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bus; hack; omnibus; stage; taxi
