Everyone’s familiar with Abbott-Donning Concord Stagecoach from the western movies but in reality the Celerity and Mud wagons were the stagecoach of choice in the Southwest.
Gerald T. Ahnert, author of The Butterfield Trail and Overland Mail Company in Arizona 1858-1861, and Retracing the Butterfield Overland Trail, writes “By definition, it was not a stagecoach. It was in the class of passenger carrying wagons known as stage ‘celerity’ wagon. This is similar to using the term for a
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