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Taverns and stagecoaches of New England : anecdotes and tales recalling the days of stagecoach travel and the ancient hostelries where strangers tarried by Allan Forbes
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks UEng F 5 .F6
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Forbes, Allan, 1874-1955.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Taverns (Inns)--New England.
- Taverns (Inns).
- Coaching (Transportation)--New England.
- Coaching (Transportation).
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : illustrations, map, facsimiles ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : State Street Trust Company, 1953-54.
- Contents:
- Vol. 1
- The pleasant and unpleasant side of the stagecoach
- Poetry of the road
- Anecdotes of the road
- The concord (new hampshire) stagecoaches
- Stagemen's entertainments
- Buffalo bill and his famous deadwood stagecoach
- "Punch" goes to the wild west show
- Dedham taverns and stagecoaches
- A caricature tavern signboard
- Signboard humor
- Knights of the whip
- Father of the stage and turnpike
- From stage driver to railroad builder
- Some old cambridge taverns
- Wolfe tavern
- Vol 2.
- Travel in the early days
- Taverns and their landlords
- Some taverns of old boston
- Bunch of grapes tavern, boston
- Green dragon tavern, boston
- Stavers starts boston's first stagecoach line
- White mountain coaching parades
- Eagle tavern, east poultney, vermont
- Shelburne, vermont museum and its stagecoach inn
- Red lion inn, stockbridge, mass.
- Eagle house, haverhill, mass.
- Horse marine news
- Publick house, sturbridge, mass.
- Groton inn
- Buckman tavern, lexington, mass.
- Munroe tavern, lexington, mass.
- Pistol ornamentation of stagecoach days
- Punch bowl tavern, brookline
- The "old ordinary," hingham, mass.
- The tree of knowledge, duxbury, mass.
- Doty tavern, ponkapoag, canton, mass.
- The morse and other early taverns of walpole, mass.
- Israel hatch, stagecoach and tavern mogul
- Cherry tavern, ponkapoag, canton, mass.
- Rare tavern signboards
- Some connecticut tavern stories
- Other new england signboards
- The coming of the iron horse
- Notes:
- Vol. 2, by Allan Forbes and Ralph M. Eastman, has subtitle: Presenting more facts and interesting comments ...
- Other Format:
- Online version: Forbes, Allan, 1874-1955. Taverns and stagecoaches of New England.
- OCLC:
- 2003420
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