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 ...

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 ...

As the second half of the nineteenth-century rolled along, highwaymen in the Wild West had been robbing stagecoaches for over ...

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 ...

Young John Hailey was especially proud of his fleet of Concord stagecoaches, the best of their time. Idaho State Historical Society In May 1866, the big news in southern Idaho was the building of a ...

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 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Stagecoaches rumbled through West Yellowstone until 1916, and free stagecoach rides will once ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: As Lexington celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding, the Herald-Leader and kentucky.com each day throughout 2025 will share interesting facts about our hometown. Compiled by ...

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 ...