Under normal conditions, how fast would a stagecoach move over flat country? James Jackson Doyle, California A six-horse team pulling a Concord coach made their 15-mile run at an average speed of nine miles an hour. In 1849, it took 166 days to travel coast to coast by stagecoach. By the 1860s, it took 60 days. A decade later, a train made the trip in 11 days. In 1923, an airplane did it in 26 hours, but by 1975, a plane traveled coast to coast in five hours. Today, the Space Shuttle does it

July 2005
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Western Books & Movies
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- Death Rides a White-Faced Horse
- So-called Cattle Kate Rises from Rubbish
- More than Just a Muse
- Frontier Women at Arms
- Hollywood’s “5-in-1” Movie Blank
- More Bucks and Other Changes
- West Texas in the Daylight
- Cheyenne Breakout
- Timothy Hughes Rare & Early Newspapers
- Old West Signs
- Genuine Cowboys Captured Alive
- Under normal conditions, how fast would a stagecoach move over flat country?
- Did Wyatt and Josephine Earp have any children?
- Where can I find the graves of Johnny Ringo, Big Nose Kate, Mattie Blaylock and Commodore Perry Owens?
- In my senior year of high school, I wrote a paper on outlaws and gunmen. One was shot in the back by a Frenchman. Do you know who it was?
- Lists of Plains Indian property captured by the army in the 1860-70s often mention “crowbars.” Why would the Plains Indians, who I thought travelled light, have crowbars?
- Why do almost all the Old West characters wear handkerchiefs around their necks in TV shows and movies?
- Death Rides a White Horse