Stage-coach And Mail in Days of Yore, Vol. I (of 2)
by Charles G. Harper
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About this eBook
- Author
- Harper, Charles G. (Charles George), 1863-1943
- Title
- Stage-coach and Mail in Days of Yore, Volume 1 (of 2) A picturesque history of the coaching age
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HE: Social sciences: Transportation and communications
- Subject
- Coaching (Transportation) -- History
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 58667
- Release Date
- January 11, 2019
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.STAGE-COACH AND MAIL IN DAYS OF YORE
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS — List of Illustrations
- 4.CHAPTER I THE INTRODUCTION OF CARRIAGES
- 5.CHAPTER II THE HORSEMEN
- 6.CHAPTER III DAWN OF THE COACHING AGE
- 7.CHAPTER IV GROWTH OF COACHING IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
- 8.CHAPTER V THE STAGE-WAGGONS AND WHAT THEY CARRIED: HOW THE POOR TRAVELLED
- 9.CHAPTER VI THE EARLY MAIL-COACHES
- 10.CHAPTER VII THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: 1800–1824
- 11.CHAPTER VIII COACH LEGISLATION
- 12.CHAPTER IX THE EARLY COACHMEN
- 13.CHAPTER X THE LATER COACHMEN
- 14.CHAPTER XI MAIL-GUARDS
- 15.CHAPTER XII STAGE-COACH GUARDS
- 16.CHAPTER XIII HOW THE COACHES WERE NAMED
- 17.CHAPTER XIV GOING BY COACH: BOOKING OFFICES
- 18.CHAPTER XV HOW THE COACH PASSENGERS FARED: MANNERS AND CUSTOMS DOWN THE ROAD
- 19.APPENDIX
- 20.Transcriber’s Notes
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