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The clue in the old stagecoach
An old letter tells of a long lost clue which is hidden in an old stagecoach. Nancy Drew and her friends set out to find the clue but someone else wants to find it first.
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Coaches and Other Wheel Carriages in the 16th–17th Century Russia
The paper is devoted to the “great transport revolution” in Russia. The author shows that the users of passenger carriages in the Moscow state of the late Middle Ages were mostly women from aristocratic families. Aristocratic men usually rode on horseback. They could be forced to take a carriage only by illness or old age. In the 16th century, the
kolymaga
, which differed little from the medieval European carriages, remained main wheeled means of transportation in Russia. Late in the 16th century, more advanced European coaches with the body suspended on leather straps began to get to Moscow. Lexemes of European origin—carretta and coach—began to penetrate into the Russian language along with them. From the end of Ivan the Terrible’s reign, coaches began to be used in diplomatic practice, which gradually created an idea of them as an element of prestige. The “transport revolution” in Russia was delayed by the Time of Troubles. From the middle of the 17th century, the number of European-made equipages began to increase in Moscow. In the late 1660s–early 1670s, coaches became fashionable among the Russian aristocracy. In 1681, the first decree restricting their use in Moscow was issued. It led to the widespread use of buggies. The “transport revolution” ended late in the 17th century.
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The stagecoach
Overview: Plagued by constant bandit attacks, Wells Fargo is falling on hard times. To restore public trust in their services, the company sends one well-publicized stagecoach from Denver to San Francisco. It will have the best whip as driver, a motley crew of daring passengers, and-to escort them and a precious cargo of gold-none other than Lucky Luke. A wise precaution, because every desperado in the country will be waiting on the coach's planned route.
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\Ticketed Through\: The Commodification of Travel in the Nineteenth Century
The means and meanings of travel in the United States changed drastically between the beginning of the nineteenth century and the eve of the Civil War. Historians have labeled this massive transformation the “transportation revolution,” a construct that illuminates its economic causes and effects but which reveals little about the changing experience of travel in this period. This article suggests that it is informative to focus instead on the commodification of travel that took place during the transportation revolution. Travel went from being a good produced by the travelers themselves to one produced by entrepreneurs, offered for sale in a travel marketplace, and consumed by passengers. The commodification of travel happened gradually, partially, and unevenly throughout the nineteenth century and across the geographical space of the expanding nation, and individuals’ access to commodified travel varied significantly with their race, class, and gender, as well as with the varying goals of their travel. Nevertheless, it represented a fundamental conceptual shift in the way travelers thought about travel, and made it a potential source of pleasure and recreation for a broad swath of the traveling public. This change was both celebrated and mourned by those who experienced it. This article analyzes three examples that explore the uneven and contested process of commodification that travel underwent in the first half of the nineteenth century and the new meanings that travelers assigned to their journeys in the process.
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Living the Global Transport Network in Great Expectations
Great Expectations (1860–61) offers a lesson in what it meant to live through the nineteenth century's global revolution in transportation. The narrating protagonist Pip, looking back from 1860, structures his story partly around his recognition that he was born into an increasingly connected global network. From a first-person perspective, unknown activity at a distance—such as that of the convict Magwitch in Australia—turns out to be synchronically consequential. Rather than discovering, however, the fragmentation of an unknowable world, the narrator learns from the collocation and interchangeability of the transport system's passengers. These help to contribute to the development of Pip's limited third-person view of himself, from which the narrator relays his story as a networked subject.
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On the Road with Rutherford B. Hayes: Oregon's First Presidential Visit, 1880
In this city-by-city retracing of Hayes's visit, from Ashland to Astoria, author Kristine Deacon examines the symbolic power and prestige of the presidency, which Hayes used as a tool for restoring national harmony to a country still shattered after the end of the Civil War. Deacon describes Hayes's redirection of the federal government's Indian policy, examines the metamorphosis of presidential travel, and details how Hayes, who was accompanied by Commander of the Army General William T. Sherman, used the trip as a basis for reorganizing the U.S. Army and for advocating for greater federal involvement in stabilizing the Columbia River bar.
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