Way out West, once

Usage examples of stagecoach.

I left it to her to send my dunnage by Jeddy and Tommy Bickford on the morning stagecoach, after which I said good-bye to her and Sarah and aunt Cynthy and set out to walk the twenty-six miles to Portland, Nathan going with me for company, and Pinky sticking his nose in every stump along the road and Iluttering his tail with delight at being off once more.

After Mission San Fernando he followed the old stagecoach road, now a multilane highway into the mountains.

That there was a district in New England containing mountain scenery superior to much that is yearly crowded by tourists in Europe, that this is to be reached with ease by railways and stagecoaches, and that it is dotted with huge hotels almost as thickly as they lie in Switzerland, I had no idea.

Two days before I lectured in Virginia City, two stagecoaches were robbed within two miles of the town.

Dickie had made the grooms practise the change-over before they were despatched to the post houses but he couldn't duplicate the real problems they might face in an inn yard crowded with in going and outgoing stagecoaches, mail coaches chaises, barouches, cabriolets and curricles as well as slow gigs and lumbering farm carts, all wanting to change horses rapidly at the same time.

While incidents like these, arising out of drums and masquerades and parties at quadrille, were passing at the west end of the town, heavy stagecoaches and scarce heavier waggons were lumbering slowly towards the city, the coachmen, guard, and passengers, armed to the teeth, and the coach--a day or so perhaps behind its time, but that was nothing--despoiled by highwaymen.

During that time the sour tanker trapped, but Stagecoach 203 boltered again in a shower of sparks as the hook point scraped the steel of the deck.

In the yard, there was a great, dizzying shuffle of livery horses being changed out and coaches, post chaises, and carriages of all descriptions coming and going, while the various arriving stagecoaches disgorged hordes of fretful, hungry travelers.

Bank robberies, train holdups, stagecoach stickups, rustling, you name it.

He strutted back to his stagecoach, muttering under his breath all the while.

With that simple but seemingly necessary explanation completed to the victim, Longarm rode on toward Wickenburg and a stagecoach that would carry him back to Yuma to wrap up this tragic series of murders.