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Show ,. THE FARLY DAY STAGE COAC ~-I The early day staf?, e coa ch once so common and useful • in western travel is , lik e the pony express, a t h i ng of the past , exc e p ~ i n a c o..rnp a r a ti v ely few isola ted mini n ~ c amps of t he i n te.r - mounta in cour try ., Th e i r .suhere of use.ful ness v1as ev.en more· exte nd ed t han that ·, of · the pmny express ·a s it carried not only news , but mail matter and p assen gers b,y t he t en of thous ands . With t h em r emarkably good t i me was also made and nany a maL and woman in Utah today can remembe r t 1e interesting and picturesque spectacle pre sented wh en the stage co ach rolled into the station with _its huma ri freight and precious packag es . They we r e day s , now referred to as formi ng an ep och of limited opportunities and o iroumsoribed possibilities ; and so t hey were . Yet they were not as slow going and un- · des irable as some people i~ag ine . Th ~ y s e rved t h ei r purpose and served it we ll . They brought the pe ople of Utah and t h e rest of the transmissouri country in touch with the older . and better de veloped 8 ta tes of the East and wi 11 ever be he ld in t ho ughtful remembrance for the great 'go od tha t c ame from their use . Among t he uno ounted thousar:ds who made tra n.:;c or:tinertal trips by stage we r e some of the ne:1tion's most prominent me n . ·O:ne- of :them ~ was Horac e~ Gre·ely·. · It \1\J.as .a . reo ord brea:kino·. r~ ide and the "i~ ew s " man irlterrot.; ated Dr. Faust with the resu·lt t hat appears below: . GREELY I:N THE WI LD 'NES T " The great trip made by t r1a.t E( r eat editor , Horace Greeley , in an overlg.nd stag e in the year 18 59 is still fresh in my memory , and as there has been a fSen ent tion c ome to go in t h e past thirty- e i ght y.e ars , who know nothing ab out the rema r Ka b1 e e vent pe r haps it wo uld r:.o t be amiss t ~:1 i s year of reminisences and jubilee to recoun t it. n To Eo r ac e G r e e 1 e y mu s t be f1 i v e r c red i t f or t he a d v i c e to a young man i n l ew Yor k : ff Go . wes t young man , ~ o west ~ ' After many years a nd when h e was of middle ~g e, h e too, conclud ed to act on 1i s own sugges tion and came vves t and see the p e op l e . . : e to.ok the stage a t the .Missouri River and carne to Denver tra v el i ng day and n i 8 h t . I n crossing t he Pl a tte river all his baggage was swept fr om t '1e boot of the stage co a ch i nto the stream and los t . • r 1 At De nv e r 11 e l e c t ur e d o n a g ri cu l tur e , l o o k e d th e s tate over and establ is hed later o:n wha t is .tno wn as the Greel ey col on.y in t he no rthwestern part of t he St a. ~e o1 Colorado . Greeley Ci ty was a lso named af ter h im . He came on to Ut ah and g ot acq·uainted with t he pe op l e and t heir l eader B ri ~ham Young ., From t he ir plan of livin';:) he had this. colony built up . While here he was entertaine d by President Young and the Salt Lake prir.ter of t hat day . He stayed in Salt Lake for some time ., • visiting the people and s tudying t he ir system of agriculture and . irri ga~ io c . From here he went to California . l i ') t ' |
