Word: stagecoach
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...shall be your King!" she would shout in gleeful rejoinder to this charge. Restless and roistering by nature, and barred from her husband's court, Caroline at last decided to take her show on the road. Trailing a retinue of doubtful characters through Europe in a refurbished stagecoach, she established her own royal residence in a gleaming white palace on the shores of Lake Como, with a dashing Italian hussar named Bergami as pro tem king of her heart. Caroline's philandering might well have gone unnoticed by Prinney, who was then Prince Regent, except that when...
...LOOK OF THE OLD WEST, by Foster-Harris (301 pp.; Viking; $7.50), may be the closest look of all during a year especially rich in books on the subject. Practically a how-to-do-it of western life, its drawings illustrate everything from saloon cuspidors to the Deadwood stagecoach...
...novel, The Three Spaniards, that had as its hero a derring-do lad named Fernando. She named the baby Fernando-and he spent the rest of his life trying to live up to her flamboyant hopes, e.g., he was once credited with saving three lovely maidens from a runaway stagecoach and its drunken driver. Born in Philadelphia, Wood went to New York to become an actor, but turned instead to politics and rose to become the first real Boss of Tammany Hall. In 1854 he became Mayor of New York City. During the Civil War years, Fernando Wood...
...Devil Riders, a stagecoach driver was burned to death and a cliff dynamited to bury alive a group at its base...
Fiore hopes to settle in the U.S. She likes big group sculpture, and feels the U.S. is just the place for it: "First because they have money. And then, places like Texas, why, they must want big group pieces, perhaps a stagecoach in the square." Her first American project will be on a smaller scale: a head of Adlai Stevenson...