Text Appearing Before Image: Photo by Maj. Lee Moorhouse Swift and Reckless at the Tiu-ns Text Appearing After Image: SWINGING THE TURNS LIKE GALLEONS IN A GALE The stagecoaches, those old caravels of the plauis, are guidedin their courses around the quarter-mile track with no slowingdown at the turns and horses on the dead run from start tofinish. It is little wonder that only one year in Round-Up his-tory has seen the three days running go through without oneor more accidents. Wells Fargo, one of the first and the first thoroughly organizedexpress, ran their leather, thoroughbraced, Concord coaches withfour to six horses in the finest Concord harness wherever a traindid not go and there was enough of a demand. Their firststagecoach came around the Horn in 1852 and may be seen intheir stables in San Francisco. Ik the old days a stagecoach generally made forty to sixtymiles a driver, with a relay every twenty miles or so. Some ofthe well-known Wells Fargo six-line stringers like Dave Hornand C. W. Barger of Pendleton have gone sixty miles eachway, being on the seat for forty-eight hours. The stages i
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