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Remembering the Concord stage coach and its riders
The article recalls old stage coaches from the West and Concord coaches built by Abbott Downing in Concord New Hampshire. It notes famous users like Garfield Arthur Sherman Greeley and Hank Monk. It describes the coach design with leather springs, multiple seats and the use of the stage on western routes. It also mentions Will Rogers Fred Stone and the Smithsonian collecting a 1825 Concord coach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Mammoth Hot Springs
Yellowstone National Park
Rocky Mountain
Montana
Helena
Bozeman
James A. Garfield
Chester A. Arthur
Yellowstone Park
General Sherman
Skinver
Fort Ellis
Mont
P. B. Clark
Washington
Will Rogers
Fred Stone
Smithsonian Institution
Concord
Museum
San Francisco
New York
Panama Canal
Potomac
Arts and Industries Section
Stone
Beverlyills
Calif
Rogers
Wild West
Lindbergh
Buster Keaton
Bas Animas
Colo
Southwest
Leavenworth
Denver
Horace Greeley
Grant
Sheriff's
BE. L. Elder
Bent County Fair Association
L. G. Kurtz
Elder
Greeley
Deadwood
Eickhorn
Jack Quinn
Santa Fe
Hank Monk
Monk
Carson City
Nev
Sierras
Placerville
Wesley Stout
Uncle Horace
Jehu
Sacramento
Horace
Hank
Cary House
Mail
trans-Mississippi
West
New England
Abbott-Downing Company
N. H
Lewis Browning
England
Vermont
Green Mountains
New Hampshire
White Mountains
Abbotts of Concord
Malor Express
Raphael Pumpelly
Butterfield