When Don Leonard watched cowboy movies as a child, he was always intrigued by the stagecoaches thundering across the Western Plains. “They’ve fascinated me forever,” said Leonard, 58. Leonard began ...

As the second half of the nineteenth-century rolled along, highwaymen in the Wild West had been robbing stagecoaches for over fifty years. There had been over five-thousand cases of stagecoach ...

In the collection of the Broome County Historical Society is the cowhide coat of the last of the stagecoach drivers in the county. Note, I said cowhide and not leather. It is a black-and-white hide ...

One solution to climate change may come from our pre-automotive past. Our quickest path to a post-fossil-fuel future may actually be hurtling toward us from our pre-fossil-fuel past. I am talking ...

After the discovery of gold in 1876, a human stampede of gold seekers “Headed for the Hills” and Deadwood, SD. Prospectors filtered into the gulches and canyons from nearly every direction, arriving ...

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 ...

Early residents of Tustin City measured travel time in days and weeks. Depending on horses and wagons, they found traveling to towns as close by as Santa Ana and Anaheim could take hours. A trip to ...

THE sight of a bee exploring the bright yellow florets of a dandelion is not unusual, except in this case it happened in mid-November high on the North York moors only a couple of feet away from a ...

GREEN TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WKRC) - A Green Township building that's so old it was once a stop for stagecoaches is being torn down. The Twin Lanterns' building was built in 1820. A century later, it was a ...