The Old Line Mail: Stagecoach Days in Upstate New York

xi, 172 pp. Includes black-and-white illustrations. From 1790 to 1840 the stagecoach reigned supreme as the mode of public conveyance. Thorpe & Sprague controlled the Albany end of the business. Jason Parker & Co. carried on through Utica and westward, while Isaac and John M. Sherwood operated from Manlius to Canandaigua. The link to Buffalo and Niagara Falls was completed by Chauncey H. and Bela D. Coe, and others.