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  • I have twelve stores on that chain now, a stage-line to the Reservation, and a hotel there.

    BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN 2010

  • The equipment of four revolvers and a repeating rifle, mentioned by Flashman, was standard for a stage-line guard. [p. 57] 5.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • That November, the stage-line owner Ben Holladay arrived in Alta, after riding the train from New York to Fort Kearney, Nebraska, then proceeding in a special horse-drawn coach.

    Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000

  • That November, the stage-line owner Ben Holladay arrived in Alta, after riding the train from New York to Fort Kearney, Nebraska, then proceeding in a special horse-drawn coach.

    Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000

  • The equipment of four revolvers and a repeating rifle, mentioned by Flashman, was standard for a stage-line guard. [p. 57] 5.

    Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

  • The equipment of four revolvers and a repeating rifle, mentioned by Flashman, was standard for a stage-line guard. [p. 57] 5.

    Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

  • She located the stage-line terminal on the map, and ran her forefinger over the route.

    North of Fifty-Three Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

  • Back to Nevada he went, and worked as messenger and driver on a stage-line.

    Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923

  • He was a clever man and had had business experience of a sort, but his interest in the Deadwood stage-line did not reach beyond the immediate opportunity it offered of acquiring a substantial amount of the

    Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

  • The Marquis, possibly feeling that it was the part of statesmanship to conciliate a rival, forgot apparently all other considerations and asked Bill Williams, the saloon-keeper, to undertake the organization of the stage-line.

    Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

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