The most memorable action sequence in Stagecoach comes near the end of the 1939 film. Shortly after the river crossing, …
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Did Stagecoach Travel Have Different Classes of Ticket?
Did stagecoach travel have different classes of ticket? Roger M. Dillingham Hackney, London, United Kingdom Some stageco…
Stagecoach Etiquette
Thanks to an 1877 Omaha Herald article, we know how we should have behaved if we’d taken a stagecoach in the old w…
Frontier Odometers
In a diary from an emigrant crossing to the California gold fields in 1849. “Life on the Plains and at the Diggins…
The Empty Sleeve Gunfight The perils of working in the stagecoach business sometimes hit closer to home.
When Joseph W. Evans passed away suddenly on May 28, 1902, at his home in Phoenix, Arizona Territory lost one of its mos…
Celerity and Mud Wagons
Everyone’s familiar with Abbott-Donning Concord Stagecoach from the western movies but in reality the Celerity and Mud w…
Rockwell Paints for Stagecoach
In 1966, legendary American artist Norman Rockwell was hired for a special job—painting a series of portraits for a rema…
Sink or Swim When shooting a movie scene becomes deadly. Stagecoach, 1939.
Nobody could overstate the impact of 1939’s Stagecoach on film in general and on the Western in particular. It rescued t…
Lessons From The Stagecoach
One of the iconic symbols of the old west is the stagecoach, and here’s betting there has never been a western mov…
Frontier Justice For Sale Stalking the elusive Western at the American Film Market.
For nearly 40 years, film distributors and filmmakers from around the world have annually converged in Santa Moni…