THE sight of a bee exploring the bright yellow florets of a dandelion is not unusual, except in this case it happened in mid-November high on the North York moors only a couple of feet away from a ...

In the collection of the Broome County Historical Society is the cowhide coat of the last of the stagecoach drivers in the county. Note, I said cowhide and not leather. It is a black-and-white hide ...

After the discovery of gold in 1876, a human stampede of gold seekers “Headed for the Hills” and Deadwood, SD. Prospectors filtered into the gulches and canyons from nearly every direction, arriving ...

As the second half of the nineteenth-century rolled along, highwaymen in the Wild West had been robbing stagecoaches for over fifty years. There had been over five-thousand cases of stagecoach ...

Early residents of Tustin City measured travel time in days and weeks. Depending on horses and wagons, they found traveling to towns as close by as Santa Ana and Anaheim could take hours. A trip to ...

One solution to climate change may come from our pre-automotive past. Our quickest path to a post-fossil-fuel future may actually be hurtling toward us from our pre-fossil-fuel past. I am talking ...

Recently I learned of Osgood Bradley, reportedly the first to manufacture passenger railroad cars in the United States. Born in Andover in 1800, Osgood was the son of Thomas O. and Mehitable C.

Anybody who’s seen an old western movie knows how a stagecoach robbery went, right? A desperate driver pushes his galloping horses across the open prairie while someone onboard exchanges rapid gunfire ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X When Joe Taylor brought his remarkable collection of slides to the library, Old Fair Haven became ...