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| | History of Muscatine County, Iowa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | I use the word coach advisedly here, for although some who were not particular used to call the early stage coaches 'mud wagons,' it was settled in a trial before a territorial court, that any vehicle mounted on thorough braces was a coach. |
 | | The coaches are said to be the best medium for indigestion now patented, and the horses have one excellent peculiarity. |
 | | The stage coach was in evidence for some time after the advent of the railroad, for in 1858 McChesney's line of coaches was still in operation, connecting daily "with the cars at Ononwa (now Lettsville) for Grand View, Wapello, Dodgeville, and at Columbus City to Washington, Brighton, Sigourney and Oskaloosa." |
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