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Rough Rides, Gold Camps & Daring Drivers<\/strong> Book Review by Craig MacDonald<\/p>\n For more than 50 years, the Stagecoach created a colorful chapter in California history.<\/p>\n In her book, “The Stagecoach in Northern California,” Sacramento-based author Cheryl Anne Stapp aptly explains the importance of stagecoaching by breaking its significance down stage-by-stage, beginning as Northern California’s first public transportation.<\/p>\n Using marvelous black and white photos from yesteryear, Historian Stapp takes readers on an enjoyable, entertaining and educational journey.<\/p>\n There was no public transportation in the Gold Rush Country until innovative James Birch saw the need and filled it. The former Providence, R.I. stagewhip, started charging $32 a person to take a wagonload of folks on a 40 mile trip from Sacramento to Coloma and on to Mormon Island. Birch was in such demand, that within 5 years, he helped establish the California Stage Company, which became the largest and richest such enterprise in the United States.<\/p>\n In 1852, William Fargo and Henry Wells formed Wells, Fargo & Co., offering expressing, banking and gold buying along the West Coast. Their firm awarded contracts to the most reliable stagelines, who then lettered “Wells, Fargo & Co.” on their coaches. Read the book review…<\/a>><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rough Rides, Gold Camps & Daring Drivers By Cheryl Anne Stapp, The History Press Book Review by Craig MacDonald For more than 50 years, the Stagecoach created a colorful chapter in California history. In her book, “The Stagecoach in Northern California,” Sacramento-based author Cheryl Anne Stapp aptly explains the importance of stagecoaching by breaking its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25609"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25610,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25609\/revisions\/25610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBy Cheryl Anne Stapp, The History Press<\/p>\n