Word: stagecoach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lerner; music by Frederick Loewe; produced by Cheryl Crawford) is the wrong advice. It should be: Grease your wagon wheels. This musical of Gold Rush days has plenty of color, plus agreeable music and lively dancing. But with all these assists, it breaks loose only occasionally from a lumbering stagecoach of a book...
...according to the Tourist Court Journal, when a Douglas, Ariz, operator prettied up six tiny mining cottages, rented them out to passing tourists. Thus the hotel business reached the end of a full-circle swing. In Revolutionary days, the inns dotted the highway as way stations for stagecoach travelers. When railroads were built, the inns moved into the cities. When the U.S. took to the road in automobiles, "tourist homes" and motels opened up in California, Texas, Arizona, Florida and other vacation states, gradually spread to all the other states...
...years. In 1914 one irate user called it a "pig pen;" only four years ago the Cleveland Press vainly campaigned to get it replaced, offered suitable prizes to anyone who could remember the day it opened in 1866. Sample awards: "lithograph of President Lincoln, free ride in next stagecoach passing through Cleveland . . . views of pony express for your stereoscope...
Back in the days when the West was young and bandits roamed the land, one great institution held Young America together: the stagecoach. Movie producers through the years have immortalized the long trip west, the peril of Indians and the fear of evil gunmen. Now, in the story of the saga Overland Stage, the saga of the men who made the trip possible has been told...
...Harold Medina, one of the notable jurists in Dallas for the opening of Southern Methodist University's new Legal Center (see EDUCATION) doffed his formal grey Homburg for a blue-green five-gallon Stetson ("I feel like a damn fool in the thing"), then climbed aboard an old stagecoach provided by his host the Dallas Bar Association, rode out to take in his first rodeo and outdoor barbecue at a nearby ranch party...