One of the iconic symbols of the old west is the stagecoach, and here's betting there has never been a western movie without one making an appearance. It always looks so romantic, and if it's delivering a new lady to town, she arrives all fresh and sweet, every hair in place, every pleat in her floor-length skirt as crisp as newly ironed.
Reality was a very different picture. “Stage journeys were expensive, nightmarish marathons over primitive boulder-strewn trails, up and down perilously s
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