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THE BTAGK'DUYER'S STORY,How Goucrl Scott’s Idf© Was Saved and How Ills Brlvor Tivlco Kscapod Dcutli.# The traveler of the present day, as he is hurried along by the lightning express, in its bullet ears and palace sleepers, seldom reverts in thought to the time when the stage coach and packet were the only means of communication between distant points. It is rare that one of the real old-time stage drivers is met with »ow*a-clays, and when the writer recently ran across Fayette Has-kell, of Lockport, N. Y„ Ve felt like a bibliographer over the discovery of some rare volume of 4‘forgotten lore.” Mr. Haskell, although one ef tho pioneers in stage driving (he formerly ran from Lewiston to Niagara Falls and Buffalo), is halo.and hearty and bids fair to live for many years. The strange stories of his early adventures would fill a volume. At on© time when going down a mountain near Lewiston with no less a personage than General Scott as a passenger, the brakes gave way and the coach came on the heels of the wheel horses. The only remedy was to whipthe leaders to a gallop. Gaining additional momentum wim onh I Son
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Alton Review
Alton, Iowa, US
Fri, Jul 04, 1884
Page 4
Full Page
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Don B.
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