Later,a stagecoach could make the trip in thirteen to fourteen days by moving day and night and changing animals often.

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So the stagecoach would travel south from Saint Louis to El Paso,Texas, then over to southern California, then north to San Francisco.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

It's easy to imagine those long-ago days of cowboys and Indians, and the spirit of adventure that led travelers to ride the stagecoach west.

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The workers were to quickly change the horses or mules whenever a stagecoach reached the station.

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There could be no delay. Each stagecoach was to travel nearly two hundred kilometers a day.

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Mules were faster. For example, in eighteen fifty-seven a stagecoach pulled by six mules took twenty to twenty-five days to travel from Independence,Missouri,to Santa Fe.

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Two-man teams were responsible for the safety of the mail, the passengers and the stagecoach.

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A stagecoach was a large, enclosed wagon pulled by teams of horses or mules.

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But the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach needed to travel as fast as possible.

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Others built small structures to house stagecoach workers and animals along the route.

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The stagecoach would stop for forty minutes, two times a day.

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Some carefully planned the way the stagecoach would travel.

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Amazingly,in addition to heavy strongboxes and baggage, a Concord stagecoach could carry as many as 18 people, squeezed inside and up top, front and back.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

The merged bank has almost And not a single stagecoach crosses the country any more.

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It was a freight and stagecoach company with a banking arm that made loans to miners, invested in property, and succeeded beyond Wells and Fargo's wildest dreams.

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