Stagecoach East: Stagecoach Days in the East from the Colonial Period to the Civil War
- ISBN-10
- 0874745225
- ISBN-13
- 9780874745221
- Category
- Business & Economics / Industries / Transportation
- Pages
- 220
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1983
- Publisher
- Smithsonian Institution Press
- Authors
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Peter T. Rohrbach
Description
Uses selections from newspapers, travel journals, diaries and government records to describe what it was like to travel by stagecoach
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