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Long Day's Journey: The Steamboat and Stagecoach Era in the Northern West

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While researching Michigan Ghost Towns, left from the lumbering era in Ogemaw County, I found little information about the stagecoach lines that connected the small lumbering towns in an era before telegraph, telephone and railroad spurs. What was it like to ride in a stagecoach from one little rustic town through the wilds and woods to another? Sure I had riden in a replica stagecoach, but how real was that ride when I was a kid? Afterall, it was over an asphalt parking lot? How real could that be? But I remembered the size and shape and interior. The small windows with a rolled up canvas blind. It was suffocating hot that day and as any eight year old I was dressed in shorts and summer top, what would it have been like for females of the eralier era?

Amazon to the rescue! I purchased this book strictly as a research reference. However, it soon became an interesting read as well as research material on traveling by stagecoach and steamboats. Thanks to this book I was able to recreate in words the travel conditions of an era long long past that most people will never physically experience.

An added plus, the pictures, illustrations and ads are excellent quality.

The book has a great variety of historical pictures. You get the real flavor of the old west. You understand how many settlers earned their money and how they settled in the old west.

It is a beautifully crafted large book.

The book is nicely bound and features heavy glossy pages