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

[@giovanniugarte2949]

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

[@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.

[@R.CAR_ADVENTURES]

A video with images of a glorious era.

[@Plainview200]

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

[@varghesethadicaren3617]

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

[@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.😊❤🙏

[@shakkattack]

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

[@dennischannells5683]

An excellent video; thank you.

[@HogMan2022]

What a great video! 🙋

[@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.

[@Louis-kk3to]

Worth my time to watch this 👍

[@josephturner7569]

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

[@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!

[@Bigbro28]

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

[@GlennDuke-yc5ky]

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

[@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.

[@annamariehewitt3173]

Fascinating video...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.

[@DOMINYPAUL]

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

[@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.

[@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!

[@kriskabin]

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

[@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.

[@debbiekennedy4500]

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

[@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.

[@arthuroldale-ki2ev]

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

[@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.

[@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 😊

[@keithfernandes7350]

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

[@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.

[@Dave49erman]

Very well done!! I appreciate your research! 🙂

[@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.

[@debbiekennedy4500]

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

[@jefframsey7406]

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

[@billbright1755]

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

[@denisplante9635]

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

[@tuvia4082]

Great, informative video, thanks.

[@lindyc.2552]

Nice history lesson! I really enjoyed it!

[@jeffreyshreve1277]

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

[@olddrummer1942]

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

[@markwriter2698]

Thank you

[@winstonelston5743]

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

[@marvincarter870]

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

[@allanegleston4931]

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

[@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.

[@ramblingrob4693]

Excellent

[@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.

[@vijayakrishnannair]

Nice 👍

[@RVnewbeonyube069]

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

[@MarkSmith-js2pu]

That was full of good stuff. Subbed for more.

[@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.........

[@trevorstewart8]

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

[@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

[@markantrobus8782]

Nice video

[@dionpeek4339]

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

[@ran6110]

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

[@eleidal]

As a long distance cyclist, I’ve never felt so fast.

[@drbobcaster]

Nifty presentation. Covers a whole lot of territory.

[@BulletmanDoom]

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

[@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?

[@cecilysharrock678]

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

[@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.

[@smacksmack5976]

Concord coach,made in new hMpshire

[@mariocisneros911]

It was a long , tiring time , dangerous too for murder and death. The railroad was a godsend in that all these hazards disappeared. In continental travel the time was shortened from possibly 2-3 months TO 3-6 days

[@stephenolson532]

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

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

Overland express pony express

[@GlennDuke-yc5ky]

Pony Express was a short lived one (young, brave and fast) rider express relay service. They basically out rode hostile Indians I figure. They must have breathed fire and had sparks coming off their horses hooves! I rode a motorcycle along some of the route. It was bleak and mostly dessert.

[@ExploreHorses]

@@LindaMerchant-bq2hp pony express video coming soon!

[@davidhudson7880]

The California horse that was in service for 15 years. 250,000 miles/15 years = 16,666 miles per year/365 days = 45.7 miles per day. That means this horse pulled a stage 3x more than the normal 15 miles, and that's without a single day off in 15 years. 🤦‍♂️

[@petehealy9819]

Yep, I immediately did the math, too, and those figures just aren't credible.

[@StevensonMag-h4p]

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[@johnpurcell7525]

Still don't know what Breed Horses pulled Stgecoaches

[@ellentuton7642]

Draft mixes in rear.

[@romeowhiskey1146]

WHO was relegated to the REAR of the BUS?

[@johnnichols4532]

250,000 in 15 years would be 45.6 miles every day!!! No days off ever!!! 4 1/2 of these 10 trips between stations every day!!! NO WAY !!!!!!

[@joeybailey3636]

The coach was not invented in America. Americans : 🚶‍➡️🚪

[@CarlosAlberto-ii1li]

Buss.

[@joeybailey3636]

The coach was not invented in America. Americans : 🗣️🗣️🗣️everything was invented in Americaaaaa

[@fringestream990]

09:30 👍

[@domenicozagari2443]

THE ROMANS HAD WAGONS, IN ITALY AND FRANCE THEY CALLED IT DELIGENCE.