THE STAGECOACH - THE BUS OF THE OLD DAYS I EXPLORE HORSES

[@rogerleelewis3621]

My brother in law went to an conference on aging back in the 70’s . Two very old men recognized one another and realized they knew each other in their youth. Turns out they had both been stage coach drivers on Butterfield stage lines which ran in rural areas of California in the early 1900’s.

[@rocktapperrobin9372]

Back in the 70’s I once met a very old man who remembered the stagecoaches of his youth, before WW1. This was in the Lake District, England.

[@giovanniugarte2949]

@@rogerleelewis3621 Butterfield stage road, Arizona?

[@yuckyool]

Butterfield was practically trancontinental. St Louis to San Francisco via AZ. Dozens of thru stops and horse-changing stations.

[@patboyd1587]

Interesting. I used to live in Gainesville Texas, off of California Street, named because that’s where the Butterfield Stagecoach left from. The movie theater is called Butterfield Stage.

[@codzy3532]

cool story my nan died in 1983 she was 89 and she told dad she remembers being in a cobb an co coach we had here in australia she said it was the last coach to run in 1900 love hearing old stories from older folks God bless u all greetings from australia

[@GlennDuke-yc5ky]

My grandma lived in the horse era. She called our little county busses 'puddle junpers' . She was a wonderful woman!

[@Peter-lm3ic]

Charles Dickens in his first visit to the US in 1842 gives an excellent account of travelling about the US in a stagecoach. Well worth a read!

[@bchapman1234]

My great grandfather lived in Oakland Ca. He suffered a stroke and moved to a farm outside Middletown in Lake Co. Ca. to live with his daughter , my grandmother. He took the train to Calistoga, but in 1917 cars and buses couldn't make the grade over Mt. St. Helena to Lake Co. He took a stagecoach.

[@elainer946]

Thank you for honoring the horse.

[@josephturner7569]

Dropping off to sleep was a serious problem in those days. Sleepers on the roof, dropped off.

[@DavidFennessy-yj7du]

Dickens in the opening chapter of a ‘Tale of Two Cities’ describes the Dover mail coach struggling up Shooters Hill outside London, the horses were continually trying to turn around and go back down the hill, the mail coaches in England were the fastest coaches and always travelled through the night

[@theresehopkins1581]

My grandparents were born in the 1880's..... my dad's mother would only let him drive as fast as a horse could run..... that's the way it was in the 1960's.😊❤🙏

[@markadams7597]

The Stagecoach Inn on I-35 in Salado, TX, had a genuine 19th C stagecoach in its main parking lot for many years. I remember as a kid stopping there to be photographed in the stagecoach. It was great, very authentic. Great review, thanks for posting.

[@abpccpba]

My Grandfather and Uncle Tom drove wagons from Indian Territory to Flagstaff, Arizona in 1898. Your presentation helps me understand what they had to deal with in there long trips. Thanks so much.

[@markantrobus8782]

And their skills.

[@asullivan4047]

Not a dangerous occupation for the faint of hearted😳

[@track1219]

They mentioned that a horse in California pulled a stage for 15 years, traveling a quarter of a million miles; I hope my car can equal that!

[@jeffrigby189]

Great explanation of the stage coach. An American, Freeman Cobb started a coaching line during the gold rushes in Australia in the 1850s and the last Cobb & Co coach ran in Queensland in the mid 1920s.

[@aussiedonaldduck2854]

There is a Cobb & co museum in Toowoomba QLD I have taken my children to twice. It is excellent and well worth a visit.

[@olddrummer1942]

Want to see lots of these? Head to the museum in Cardston Alberta, where they restore these and others. They take them right down to the bare wood and painstakingly repaint them by hand no less. Lots of tack and other historic stuff there too! Just amazing.

[@Bigbro28]

I’ve lost interest in ‘Western’ movies but found this video fascinating and educational. 👍

[@gandalf87264]

It's fascinating to see how we made do with what we had in earlier times.

[@giovanniugarte2949]

It's a relaxing and nostalgic experience to ride a stagecoach. I did it in California. FSLN

[@HogMan2022]

What a great video! 🙋

[@Plainview200]

Mark Twain's book " Roughing It" describes his 1860s trip across the West in a stagecoach.

[@violetabrdar8957]

Where can I get the book?

[@clwest3538]

I worked at a 'cowboy steakhouse' in AZ when I was in my early 20s - I was privileged to work with a fellow named Dale who drove the stage coach for customers. He taught me how to harness and drive his two blond Belgians - Dale was a great guy, sharp wit and loved those horses like they were his children! What a fun time! Doing family research I ran across a picture of my great grandfather on his dray-wagon at the railroad - he drove cargo from the rail road to wherever it needed to be delivered. Thanks for the video!

[@davidrice3337]

My Dad started the Southern Indiana Draft Horse & Mule Ass back in the 1980s - I love those Draft Horses - & Mules of course!

[@shakkattack]

Thank you , this was educational and entertaining , much appreciated 👌🏻👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

[@DOMINYPAUL]

Wow That's a lot of good information thanks for the details.

[@debbiekennedy4500]

Still Hooked~~ I Now Have MY "Gold 👍 Handled STAGECOACH Anniversary MUG.!! 87 yr old Londoner.🐎🐎

[@Louis-kk3to]

Worth my time to watch this 👍

[@senatorjosephmccarthy2720]

Thanks for the stage coach history lesson. The United States has had a great, but not easy, history.

[@keithfernandes7350]

These were pioneers who created roads where non existed and those who braved the journey created countries like America ❤

[@varghesethadicaren3617]

An excellent piece of work on an anachronistic mode of transport. The visuals are informative and the commentary ---- crystal clear.

[@darleytransportandtravel6353]

Excellent video! Very well put together. I often think of the stagecoaches of England when travelling along its beautiful roads and passing its old inns.

[@annamariehewitt3173]

Fascinating video...Thanks for posting

[@evitasdad]

So interesting, thank you!

[@marlenegreyling8620]

Wonderful video. Thank you for these interesting facts. I can just imagine how difficult it must have been for all those travellers, horses and donkeys included 😊

[@Joe-g7i2i]

Thank you for posting. We'll put together lots of interesting information.. Not to mention all the beautiful artwork in the video and paintings.🤠

[@DieterLo1]

Very informative and interesting video! Thanks!

[@markantrobus8782]

Question : what was the whip for? Not explained. Anyway. Loved this video. Impressed with the thought of how skilful the drivers had to be, mostly glossed over in the countless Westerns we all watched. 78 yrs old here.

[@arthuroldale-ki2ev]

VERY GOOD! In some ways we have lost so much!

[@lindyc.2552]

Nice history lesson! I really enjoyed it!

[@kriskabin]

Top whip in California--> The great Charley Parkhurst!🐎

[@marvincarter870]

Interesting video with some good info put out to us viewers. Good job!

[@juanasanelli6831]

GRacias por esta belleza de video Me suscribi Eran dias duros los de la diligencia ...

[@vijayakrishnannair]

Nice 👍

[@allanegleston4931]

rode in the wells fargo stage in a parade . fun.well done.

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent photography pictures of those different coach styles🤗. Enabling viewers 👀 to better understand what the orator is describing😉. My favorite was the Borax ( 20-muel team ) soap box picture🤗.

[@debbiekennedy4500]

Debbie. Brilliant Documentary! Butterfield stsge~~ memories come Flooding Back !! Thank you.🐎🐎

[@JelMain]

The reason coaches in the UK were slow is because the unmade roads were a sea of mud, often up to a mile wide. I live on the outer edge of London, at one day's journey, ten miles from the centre, and every town along that radius has one or more coaching inns - Barnet had dozens.

[@rocktapperrobin9372]

Stagecoaches were an impetus behind the construction of toll roads. The good surfaces (almost up tonRoman standards) significantly reduced journey times on major routes.

[@tuvia4082]

Great, informative video, thanks.

[@muhammadakhtarrao7711]

Thanks for uploading wonderful history.

[@winstonelston5743]

1:20 I saw that rear boot and immediately thought of Lee Marvin's first reveal in the wonderful western comedy, _Cat Ballou._

My grampa born in 1886 Got to see us go from Horse & Buggy to landing on the moon. 1986 He lived alone & still drove. Not a bad run. !

[@thomasturner7111]

I liked the way the driver treated the horses with utmost care horses are amazing animals…

[@Dave49erman]

Very well done!! I appreciate your research! 🙂

[@Mike-ys4sr2023]

Thanks for the great history on Stagecoach 🎉

[@klauskarbaumer6302]

Sir Winston Churchill is credited with this statement: "I have always considered that the substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the history of mankind. I concur.

[@charlesreid3482]

He might have said in the history of mankind

[@klauskarbaumer6302]

Thank you. You are right, I corrected it now. I don't know where my head was when I wrote that.

[@emmgeevideo]

You've been watching too many TV shows. What is so wonderful about a bunch of horses all over the place?

[@klauskarbaumer6302]

@@emmgeevideo The looks, the slower pace of life, besides I have had horses and worked with them for 61 years now and still love it.

[@emmgeevideo]

@@klauskarbaumer6302 And I'll bet you have a car that you use for normal transportation. The "slower pace of life" suited wealthy people, but the days that were dominated by horse-drawn transportation were pretty darn hard for most people. Never mind having to clean up the horse manure constantly. This was a real problem in cities. Horses didn't last as beasts of burden and personal transportation because other forms of transportation and power were so much better. Now hobbyists such as yourself enjoy them but rarely use them in as in days of yore.

[@RVnewbeonyube069]

if i were tied to 5 other people i don't thank i could run. horses are magnificent animals.

[@violetabrdar8957]

Bc you are not a f horse!

[@katinawhitley9340]

And strong as hell

[@olddrummer1942]

It's called the Remington Carriage Museum and it's on you tube.

[@glennstenbergkvist5971]

Beautiful video program! I understand that driving and handling the horses of a stagecoach effectively was quite a skill and that during the days of the B-western a supporting or character actor by the name of Bud Osborne was employed a great deal for driving the coaches in the movies he appeared in and in other films, as well.

[@yuckyool]

Princeton NJ was the "stage stop" for pre-railroad trips between NYC and Philly. Lots of hotels, inns and stock-support.

[@billbright1755]

In the movie Stagecoach it was amazing how many people they got in that thing.

[@groblerful]

I would like to have heard more about the leather slung coaches used by Cobb & Co which handled rough ground better than coaches with Iron springs.

[@blockmasterscott]

It’s just amazing how fast we went from stagecoaches over to cars, trucks and buses. I would say less than twenty years.

[@davidkharat1]

I loved it very much. Thank you

[@ran6110]

Interesting video, I was hoping for a discussion on the rates charged...

[@jeffreyshreve1277]

Thank you for the video, you have given me much information that I did not know.

[@Louis-e6q]

Horse power ❤

[@dennischannells5683]

An excellent video; thank you.

[@simonolsen9995]

A bloke by the name of Freeman Cobb from Massachusetts and a few mates introduced US style stage coaches onto the Australian gold fields in 1853. They were critical infrastructure for great prosperity, but nobody in these loyal British Colonies was going to say thanks to an upstart Yank when not even 80 years had passed since the Revolution.

[@perpetualgrin5804]

I say thanks for man on the moon. Greetings from Australia.

[@kiwitrainguy]

There were Cobb & Co coaches in New Zealand as well.

[@perpetualgrin5804]

@kiwitrainguy I liked Cobb & Co aftershave, alittle off topic.

[@denisplante9635]

And the Concord Coach was made by Abbot & Downing company in Concord NH and shipped west by train on flatcars

[@johnniewebster7288]

A very interesting documentary

[@ernesttravers829]

Excellent video man

[@job38four10]

I always wondered what it would be like to ride on stagecoach. Seem so roads still had to be constantly worked on, at least in North East, so they must of had some sort of graders or drags to smooth out bumps.........

[@R.CAR_ADVENTURES]

A video with images of a glorious era.

[@gregrobinson2394]

Here in Australia, the equivalent of Wells Fargo was Cobb & Co. started by an american Freeman Cobb who saw the need to get people to the goldfields the same as in San Francisco which resulted in Wells Fargo being formed. Cobb and Co. is a part of Australian history.

[@trevorstewart8]

The modern term "Bus" is derived from the 18th.c name for a city horse bus as "Omnibus" meaning universal bus.

[@barbaraferron7994]

One of the first movies uses a very old train, one of the first trains, it had refitted coaches for cars. I think the costumes were original from the time depicted early 19th century. Maybe out of trunks in attics.

[@Corgis175]

There used to be a stagecoach route on Catalina Island, off CA.

[@MarkSmith-js2pu]

That was full of good stuff. Subbed for more.

[@mariocisneros911]

At 6:00 narrator says horses drove max 3 hours at 15 miles limit. So what we see in the movies is way wrong. The horses just walked , trotted at 5 miles per hour

[@steveschainost7590]

I have a book entitles "Wagons West 1590-1900" by Richard Dunlop that contains a photograph taken on 15 April 1868. The photo is of a railroad train of 15 flatcars carrying 30 Concord coaches from the factory in Concord, New Hampshire for delivery to Wells Fargo in Omaha and Salt Lake. That would hae been something so see.

[@markwriter2698]

Thank you

[@A3Kr0n]

It's gonna suck when we have to go back to this.

[@drbobcaster]

Nifty presentation. Covers a whole lot of territory.

[@RivhardDavenport]

MY ONLY EXPERIENCE RIDING IN A COACH WAS AT KNOTTS BERRY FARM IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AS A KID IN THE EARLY 1960'S!!!!

[@jefframsey7406]

Riding in a stage was miserable but many cases the only form of travel.

[@asullivan4047]

A visit to a chiropractic clinic afterwards😳

[@adrianaaraujo8634]

Very good doc ;O)

[@giuliopedrali4794]

There is a beautiful scale model of stage coach by Artesanato Latino a Spanish model makers in wood kit in 1:10 scale

[@WILLIAM1690WALES]

The term “station wagon“ is when a vehicle used to pick you up from the train station to take you to the nearby town?

[@dionpeek4339]

There is a stage coach at the old train station in Omaha NE.

[@patbrennan6572]

Thank you very much for this informative post, and thank you doubly for using a real person to narrate , I detest A I.

[@markantrobus8782]

Nice video

[@ramblingrob4693]

Excellent

[@stephenolson532]

That had to be a hot/cold/dusty/wet ride 🙈🤕

[@katinawhitley9340]

Stage coach, the original greyhound

[@Jeffrey-c2z]

Unfortunately this video doesn't mention that the stage coaches used in the United States were built in Concord,New Hampshire.

[@jimwilloughby]

I was disappointed that there was nothing in this video about the construction of Abbot & Downing coaches built in Concord New Hampshire. I think they were the best stages ever built.

[@anoopprabhakar4856]

The world's first Bus/Omnibus was invented in the year1662 by Mr.Blaise Pascal ,the French inventor and Mathematician.

[@glennstenbergkvist5971]

If the whip wasn't used, including because just the mere sound of it could be frightening for man and beast, then indeed the question is why did it become such a key symbol for the driver?

[@Accawmacke_Injun]

They were originally called stage wagons and it was first made in America

[@kevinkurtz9889]

We tend to glorifie the stagecoach. I took a ride in a stagecoach for about a mile in length. Sitting on a piece of posturepedic pine and sand blowing through the coach was not very glamorous. It beat walking, thats about all I could say.

[@BulletmanDoom]

And I always thought riding shotgun was because of the 2 barrels being side by side like the driver and passenger. 😂😂

[@cecilysharrock678]

I bet the trip across America on a tarred road was far more comfortable than an old trail.

[@smacksmack5976]

Concord coach,made in new hMpshire

[@jameswood-fd6hl]

Dang the freight hauler I drive can run 500 Mile in a day did he say 70 miles in a day stagecoach?