Like the old cowboy movies where the stage-coach turns over in the desert, and the wheels spin nonsensically. |
Leaving the capital by the Porte St-Jacques, his stage-coach was stiffly sprung, had unyielding seats, was likely overcrowded and offered only leather straps for comfort and support. |
In the early days of railways, trains consisted of short, fairly rudimentary carriages, an ordinary stage-coach body fitted to an underframe with axles. |
When railroads came upon the scene they were opposed by turnpike companies, stage-coach proprietors, tavern keepers and farmers. |
The old man looks eastward, and frames a simile of the stage-coach and the sun. |
Kurt Russell plays the bewhiskered John Ruth, a bounty hunter who is in a stage-coach pulled by a six-horse team, conducting a prisoner across difficult country in a gathering blizzard to the town of Red Rock. |