Stagecoaches were a way to travel until the railways in the 1830s. They were made with buckboards, dead axle wagons, surplus Army ambulances & celerity (mud). Two, four or six horses or mules would pull the coaches to deliver mail or carry passengers & loads. Stagecoaches were sometimes called "Thoroughbraces" named for the leather straps that supports the body like shock springs. One could travel at the speed of 5 miles per hour to maybe 60 or 70 miles in a day. Sometimes a shotgun messenger armed with a coach gun rode along as a guard.
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