Thanks to an 1877 Omaha Herald article, we know how we should have behaved if we'd taken a stagecoach in the old west. First, we were advised that the best seat inside the coach was behind the driver, riding backwards. Yes, some people got motion sickness, but if it didn't bother you, this was the spot with “half the bump


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