Chapters: The Puritan Ordinary // Old-time Taverns // The Tavern Landlord // Tavern Fare and Tavern Ways // Kill-devil and its Affines // Small Drink // Signs and Symbols // The Tavern in War // The Tavern Panorama // .From Path to Turnpike // Packhorse and Conestoga Wagon // Early Stage-coaches and Other Vehicles // Two Stage Veterans of Massachusetts // A Staging Centre // The Stage-driver // The Romance of the Road // The Pains of Stage-coach Travel // Knights of the Road // Tavern Ghosts
Chapters : Colonial Stage Lines -- Revival After the Revolution -- Stagecoaches and the Mail (a debate of the confederation period ) -- The Stages Roll ( 1790 to 1800 ) -- The Early Stage Coaches -- Perils of the Road -- The Stage Driver -- The "Steplively Era" in the East -- The Post Office and the Stages -- Newspapers and the Stages -- Stagecoach Makers -- The Stagecoach Tavern -- Steamboats and Stages - Rivals and Partners -- West to the Mississippi -- The Indian Summer of Eastern Staging
Summary
Uses selections from newspapers, travel journals, diaries and government records to describe what it was like to travel by stagecoach.
