Few places seemed more romantic than the American West to tourists at the turn of the 20th century. Many headed westward, seeking the untamed beauty and vast open spaces that epitomized opportunity, individuality, and what it meant to be American.
Here, passengers view the natural landscape from inside or atop a sightseeing carriage on its way to Arizona's Grand Canyon. The stagecoach is a symbol of the American West, but its origins are in New England.
First built in the s, Concord coaches featured an innovative leather-strap suspension that produced a rocking motion over rough roads -- easier on passengers and horses alike. This example carried passengers and mail in New Hampshire and Maine before the automobile made it obsolete. Built by Samuel D. Hubbard around , the Mansion House served as a stagecoach stop providing meals and lodging to weary travelers passing through Middletown, Connecticut.
The hotel also catered to local residents as a site for meetings and public celebrations. One notable party commemorated builder Samuel Hubbard's appointment to the office of United States Postmaster General. For nearly thirty years, to , the Detroit Publishing Company was one of the major image publishers in the world.
The company had a wide-ranging stock of original photographs, including this image of Howardsville along the Animas River in Colorado. Sultan Mountain and Bear Mountain provide a backdrop for the early settlement's log buildings, dirt streets, and corrals.
Before railroads, long-distance travelers often purchased a ticket and climbed aboard a public coach. They would jostle along rough country roads with mail, freight, and other passengers "in stages," stopping every few hours to change horses. Before railroads, long-distance travelers often rode in public coaches. This image depicting a loaded stagecoach in transit was drawn and engraved by Philadelphia artist Alexander Robb. Copies of the broadside would have been posted in the company's offices and given to passengers.
Prolific illustrator John Warner Barber sketched this charming scene of the eastern view of the public square of New Haven, Connecticut. The circa color engraving depicts a pastoral scene of buildings, people strolling, and a stagecoach.
In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market.
Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States. Stagecoaches, horses, and a pack train carry men and supplies down the streets of Dolores, Colorado. Most of the men in this late 19th-century photograph were probably miners or prospectors.
Note the man by the stagecoach with a mining pan. And on the far right is a man on horseback who has packed his horse with a pan and shovel. This wood engraving depicts a typical midth-century travel scene. Traveling by stagecoach meant being jostled on rough country roads and stopping every few hours to change horses. Travelers squeezed into coaches and roadside inns with strangers. This engraving depicts a stagecoach journeying toward Middletown, Connecticut.
Stage lines often connected outlying towns with cities and railways. This newspaper clipping from the New York Evening Post, dated October 29, , advertises a number of stage coach lines operating between eastern cities. If they couldn't go by railroad, Americans often traveled by stagecoach -- even into the early 20th century. Find bus timetables and a journey planner for all bus services in Northamptonshire together with details of service changes.
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