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Just watching a B John Wayne movie. The Duke is in the stagecoach business.

Any one ever drive, or ride a stagecoach?

No stage coach. But the Duke and I were born in the same town. 50 years apart but the same town.

kwg

KW, It's been years, I've eaten at the Gold Buffett in Winterset.

Neat movie. Saw it on Prime. Did I read correctly it was his first movie? (Looked it up) Not his first starring role (The Big Trail in 1930,) but . . . "This is the film (1939) that boosted Wayne into major stardom."

This was 1936.

Had a Stagecoach and sold it and made one for a guy in AZ. They are interesting to ride as the body rocks forward and back. That is to help the horses pulling the coach,as when it rocks back it has less weight on the front wheels. They would run mules on parts of road that had lots of sand.

Stagecoach is not a B movie. First rate Hollywood classic that boosted John Wayne into stardom.

Yes, I have written in a stagecoach. I cannot for the life of me understand how people were able to do that for any length of time. I'll take riding on a horse any day. For that matter, I would rather walk than ride a stagecoach for any length of time.

Wonder what John Ford would have done if you told him Stagecoach was a B western. Some funny stuff there.

I live in Stagecoach, Nevada. Does that count?

Yeah, that wasn't a B western by any stretch of the imagination. I'm a huge Wayne fan, and have watched all his movies, some of them numerous times. BUT....I never cared for his B westerns. They were mostly pretty silly, and actually stupid for the most part. Stagecoach was the first movie he starred in that I really liked........and as they say, the rest is history.

I like the movie, rode in one on a trail ride one time

I road in a Concord truck one time!!! The Concord trucks were made by the Abbot & Downing co of Concord N.H., who made the Abbot and Downing stagecoaches used thru out the west "THE CONCORD COACH" most all Wells fargo coaches were concord coaches. JW was a great actor and American here,but his "B" westerns were pretty hokey, singing sandy comes to mind.

Rode an actual Stage Coach in California in the 60's at Knott's Berry Farm. The sights & sounds of the creaking leather, the horses, the hooves, etc., was larger than life when I was 8 years old. Proudly wearing my Tombstone Sherrif's badge I was allowed to ride with the driver..

Never Rode it, but a man in South Dakota had one in His barn. We Pheasant hunted His place a couple of years, and stayed in a mobile Home there one time. He gave rides in Deadwood during the summer. A few years after my last trip, tornadoes tore up His place and I think He moved to Deadwood full time. I never heard if it ruined his Stagecoach or not. miles

I rode that coach too, didn't get to sit up top though. I like Knotts better than Disneyland back then. Their restaurant had the best fried chicken and biscuits ever.


mike r

Years ago I took my kids on a real stagecoach ride in the Gold Rush town of Columbia, CA. They had actors on horseback "robbing" the stage. My kids loved it even though it was "scary".

Just looked it up, they still offer those stagecoach rides. I'm going back..with grandkids now.

Rode in one in Ft Robinson in NW Nebraska. Went around the grounds there. Our family sure enjoyed it.

Would love to go back out there.

I’ve worked on quite a few westerns that had coaches. Did get to drive a mud wagon coach hooked up to a four up a couple of miles once. I thought Red Wolverton was the best hand driving a six up in Az in the 70’s,80’s and 90’s. It’s really hard for a man horseback to catch a coach pulled by 6 good horses.
Fred