Did stagecoach travel have different classes of ticket?
Some stagecoach companies had three classes. First class rode all the way; second class had to get out and walk on steep grades; third class passengers not only had to walk, but also push on the hills. Crossing the sand dunes west of Yuma, Arizona Territory, passengers had to ride the hurricane deck of a mule, hence the name “Jackass Mail.”
Whatever class of ticket these pioneers had, they faced a tough journey while traveling on this stagecoach from Deadwood, Dakota Territory, circa 1880.
1948 - Santa Fe diesel passenger locomotive crashes and hangs over Aliso St, Los Angeles Union Station Jan. 25, 1948
A family poses in front of sod house, south of West Union, Custer County, Nebraska, 1887.
Arriving in Nebraska from Belgium in the spring of 1883, Isadore Haumont poses with his family for Butcher in front of their two-story sod house on French Table, north of Broken Bow, in 1886.