Old Butterfield Stage Coach Tour part I
Tombstone Arizona
Tombstone Arizona. Stagecoach ride.
Tombstone Arizona-O.K. Corral, and Stagecoach
Western Town,O K Corral, cowboys, dance halls,
Old Tucson Stage Coach
At the famous Old Tucson Movie Set in Arizona
Stagecoach Rides & Tours in Arizona
Enjoy a ride in past mode of transportation and learn history along the route. Your Adventure starts here!
Stage Coach Virginia City 2009
The Finlayson's cross the West on the Overland Stage to Virginia City, NV. OK, maybe we didn't go all the way across the West in the stage coach, but we had a blast. Everything Mark Twain says about stage coaching is true. It is a wild ride!
Exploring an Abandoned 1800's Stagecoach Stop
Was out doing some exploring today in Southern California and came across an old Stagecoach Stop from the 1800's.
I had to film this on my S7 since I left the GoPro at home.
Finding Tombstone: True stories from miners, Apache, and cowboys. Arizona Territory 1870's
Shot and filmed on location by Bradley Boyer, great grandson of Oliver Boyer, (aka Jack Friday) finds his family past through 10 years of research, history, and word-of-mouth stories which still exist in Tombstone today. Shot on location Spring 2013- Present, this true tale will captivate your heart.Before Wyatt Earp, Earp's brothers, and Doc Holliday, there was 300 miles of underground workings in dangerous conditions. Nearly 1000 miners getting paid well, a Silver Boom in the bust of the Apache Wars, you'll learn about the struggles of Cochise, the Chiricahua Apache, Geronimo, fighting the U.S. Cavalry, with bandits, outlaws and cowboys all running the same Territory in a little known area called Goose Flats. The makings of a power keg, that once Silver was discovered here, all hell broke loose, and there was more to life in true Wild West than drunk cowboys shooting each other. These are personal accounts from the men who live the life of the 1880's every day. A big thanks to friends, Family, and local Tombstone folks who know and love this history.
Carey Granger: Senior mine Historian. Shot On Location: Tombstone Mining Co. Good Enough Mine Tour.
Johnny Gomez interview:
Shot on Location: Council Rock. Cochise Stronghold.
Dragoon Mountains, 9 miles East of Tombstone AZ.
Cowboys interviews:
Shot on location: Four deuces Saloon.
Mark Lewis: (accounts of the cowboy game 1865
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Special Thanks to:
Wyatt Earp Theater.
The Folks of the town of Tombstone.
Johnny Gomez, And Lou the rancher and owner of the
Butterfield Stagecoach for letting take bonnie and the burros for a walk in the desert. (See Bonnie Run at 20:30) ! Without this magical animal medicine bestowed upon the partners, the Grand Central may have never been found.
Extra Special Thanks to Tianya Milagro, and the entire dance troupe for excellent belly dance shows in Tombstone HIstoric District. (More Credits to come, please e-mail us at
SecoLodge@gmail.com for ideas, updates, or credits needed. We're holding life rights of all families involved for authentic writing and release of our ancestors stories. All video, photography, music, story, ideas, characters and historical work presented here is copyright by each actor and author. This video is registered with everyone involved. ©2018 Underground Mass Media Music (BMI). Family , Life Rights, Protected. To Get Involved, please e-mail us at SecoLodge@gmail.com. Learn your History. Yes, there is more to our history besides outlaws.
Myth and Legend: The Butterfield Overland Stage
Glen Sample Ely, Ph.D., discusses his new book, “The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail, 1858-1861
For Texas, the story of the Butterfield Overland stage is both mythical and legendary. A north-south stage operated by the Risher, Hall and Sawyer partnership, it traversed Allen and carried mail and passengers from Dallas to Sherman, following the route that is now Greenville Avenue and Jupiter Road. Between 1858 and 1861, passengers could connect to the Butterfield in Sherman and travel to St. Louis or San Francisco.
The Stagecoach Journey, Part 5
The Stagecoach Journey
Rick Hamby, a cowboy from West Plains, Missouri had long dreamed of riding off into the sunset, galloping into the back country of the great American West, just as cowboys had done decades ago, before fences, highways, farms and ranches and towns.
In the spring of 2001, he led a group of cowboys on a journey that had not been attempted in 140 years. They departed the public square of Springfield, Missouri for an epic journey to Tombstone, Arizona in a stagecoach.
It would become a sixty three day, fourteen hundred mile trip following as much as possible the historic route of the Butterfield Overland Stage route of 1858, which was, before the Pony Express and the transcontinental railroad, America's first scheduled transcontinental mail service.
In 1999, Rick Hamby found a historic, original Butterfield stagecoach behind a blacksmith's shop in northern Arkansas. He bought it on the spot, hauled it home to his ranch near West Plains, and he began to plan an epic journey.
It became his quest to reconnect to the ways of the West, when people traveled by horse, wagon and mule power.
Their 2001 journey made some 30 miles a day, camping overnight at ranches and county fairgrounds along the way. It was an exhausting and exhilarating odyssey. It was a succession of long days that began before dawn, and ended after sunset, with sleet, wind, dust, heat and occasional danger along the way.
Before they left, they pledged to stop at schools and nursing homes along the way to share their adventure with young and old alike. And their generosity was met with welcomes everywhere they went. Ranchers and townspeople alike opened their doors and hearts to help feed the livestock, host beans and cornbread dinners for the stagecoach crew and enjoy short rides in the historic coach.
The Stagecoach Journey follows the adventures, challenges, and rewards of the intrepid stagecoach crew as they head west from Missouri to Arizona.
It's a heartwarming, picturesque, and entertaining documentary about their unique adventure as 21st century cowboys travel the path of their 19th century counterparts.
Produced and photographed by Ed Fillmer, an Ozark native and former reporter for KY3 News, Springfield, Missouri.
Dragoon Springs Arizona Apache Attack
Early In 1862, a force of about 1500 Federal Soldiers left Ft Yuma Ca. and crossed into the Arizona Territory C.S.A. Their mission was to capture or destroy the Confederate force of H.H.Sibley which had occupied much of Arizona and New Mexico. In March a small detachment from that Column had been captured by Captain Sherod Hunter and his Confederate Arizona Rangers. On May 5, 1862, Hunter and his Rangers were attacked by Cochise and around 100 warriors. The Apaches attacked the Confederate foraging party which was gathering stray cattle near the abandoned Butterfield Overland Stagecoach Station at a place called Dragoon Springs. Interestingly, there was a report made by a former member of the Union California Column which states that the foraging party included three Union prisoners from that unit. The report goes on to say that these men fought the Apaches alongside their Confederate captors and that one of them inscribed the headstones of the killed Confederates. It was said that the three captured Federal soldiers that accompanied the Confederate Rangers were given arms to help fight off the Apaches. ( Ironically they joined forces for the survival of both Yank and Reb alike.) Four of Hunter's Confederates were killed and the Apaches stole 25 horses and 30 mules. It is unknown whether any of the Apaches were slain. The fallen Confederates were hastily buried a few yards from the stone ruins of the Stagecoach Station where they remain to this day. They are the only Confederate soldiers known to have been killed in battle within Arizona.
The 150th anniversary of the Butterfield stagecoach
SHOTLIST
Missouri/Arkansas Border- September 2008
1.Wide shot Butterfield stagecoach driving by
Pea Ridge National Military, Arkansas- September 2008
2. Pan from Pea Ridge national military park to Butterfield stagecoach
Arkansas-September 2008
3. Close-up Butterfield stagecoach
4. Wide shot Butterfield stagecoach goes by
5. Close-up Butterfield stagecoach stops at rest stop
6. Wide shot people taking photos of Butterfield stagecoach
7. Close-up interior of Butterfield stagecoach
8. Wide shot Rick Hamby, owner of Butterfield stagecoach
9. Close-up Hamby
Missouri- September 2008
10. SOUNDBITE:(English), Rick Hamby, Owner of Butterfield Stagecoach
When the civil war started, currency changed hands, the fighting of the control of one of the main routes of the United States was the Butterfield overland trail and the section we are travelling this time, the Old Wire Road was such a hotbed of contest to control between the north and south. Whoever controlled the supply routes, the main roads, which the Butterfield overland was, would control the state usually that it ran in.
Along Missouri/Arkansas Border- September 2008
11. Wide shot Butterfield stagecoach passes by
12. Close-up N Old Wire RD sign
13. Medium shot stagecoach drives by
Fayetteville, Arkansas- September 2008
14. SOUNDBITE:(English), Gloria Young,Heritage Trail Partners Board Member
It took about 3 months to get word back to the east coast before the overland rail because the letters went by ship to the tip of south America, to get to san Francisco from the east coast. And with the overland mail you could actually get a letter from coast to coast in oh 30 days from St. Louis in San Francisco in 25 days. The record I believe was 19 days; this was the longest overland stage run in history before or since.
Missouri- September 2008
15. Wide shot Hamby inside school
16. Hamby teaching children about Butterfield overland route
17. Hamby pointing to route on map
18. SOUNDBITE:(English), Rick Hamby, Owner of Butterfield Stagecoach
Since I was a kid, I have always been just mesmerised by the great American West. Greece, Rome, they have the gladiators, Zeus and Apollo and America has the cowboy, the Indian and different iconic symbols and the stagecoach being one of those. And this stagecoach, when I got the opportunity to get it, filled a dream of mine.
19. Close-up Hamby and horse
20. Medium shot Hamby and horse
21. Butterfield stagecoach takes off
LEAD IN
This year marks the 150th anniversary of an historic stagecoach trip in the American Wild West.
In 1858, the first Butterfield passenger-carrying stagecoach set off from Missouri and arrived over three weeks later in San Francisco.
Now, a group of stagecoach enthusiasts, led by the owner of the Butterfield stagecoach Rick Hamby, are re-enacting parts of the trip by travelling from Southern Missouri to Fayetteville, Arkansas.
STORYLINE:
This year marks the 150th anniversary of a historic trip in the American Wild West, involving a stagecoach that took mail and a single individual from St. Louis, Missouri to San Francisco, California.
The Butterfield stagecoach made the unprecedented trip, in 24 days, crossing multiple states from Missouri to California.
In March of 1857, the United States Congress passed a Post Office overland mail appropriations bill to facilitate the delivery of mail to Western states.
While the primary goal of the Butterfield stagecoach was to deliver mail, it also carried people for an astounding one way fare of USD $200.
The first trip was launched in 1858, from Tipton, Missouri, and it eventually finished in San Francisco 24 days later.
According to Hamby, the Butterfield overland stagecoach played a significant role during the US civil war.
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Stage Coach Ride
Pine River, Minnesota
The Butterfield Overland Mail Trail reenactment 1958
Item Number: F2008.148.01
Silent color film of horse and buggy reenacting the Butterfield Overland Mail Trail
Extent: (quantity/size) 42 minutes 49 seconds
Media: 16 mm film AVI 1920X1080 29.97 FRAME RATE
Contact The Oklahoma Historical Society to purchase non watermarked DVD or High resolution Digital File
The Stagecoach Journey, Part 1
The Stagecoach Journey
Rick Hamby, a cowboy from West Plains, Missouri had long dreamed of riding off into the sunset, galloping into the back country of the great American West, just as cowboys had done decades ago, before fences, highways, farms and ranches and towns.
In the spring of 2001, he led a group of cowboys on a journey that had not been attempted in 140 years. They departed the public square of Springfield, Missouri for an epic journey to Tombstone, Arizona in a stagecoach.
It would become a sixty three day, fourteen hundred mile trip following as much as possible the historic route of the Butterfield Overland Stage route of 1858, which was, before the Pony Express and the transcontinental railroad, America's first scheduled transcontinental mail service.
In 1999, Rick Hamby found a historic, original Butterfield stagecoach behind a blacksmith's shop in northern Arkansas. He bought it on the spot, hauled it home to his ranch near West Plains, and he began to plan an epic journey.
It became his quest to reconnect to the ways of the West, when people traveled by horse, wagon and mule power.
Their 2001 journey made some 30 miles a day, camping overnight at ranches and county fairgrounds along the way. It was an exhausting and exhilarating odyssey. It was a succession of long days that began before dawn, and ended after sunset, with sleet, wind, dust, heat and occasional danger along the way.
Before they left, they pledged to stop at schools and nursing homes along the way to share their adventure with young and old alike. And their generosity was met with welcomes everywhere they went. Ranchers and townspeople alike opened their doors and hearts to help feed the livestock, host beans and cornbread dinners for the stagecoach crew and enjoy short rides in the historic coach.
The Stagecoach Journey follows the adventures, challenges, and rewards of the intrepid stagecoach crew as they head west from Missouri to Arizona.
It's a heartwarming, picturesque, and entertaining documentary about their unique adventure as 21st century cowboys travel the path of their 19th century counterparts.
Produced and photographed by Ed Fillmer, an Ozark native and former reporter for KY3 News, Springfield, Missouri.
Butterfield Stage - John Malcolm Penn
Original song from the album 'Along the Southern Emigrant Trail', available at johnmalcolmpenn.com
Butterfield Stage is California State Historical Landmark #647. Plaque Inscription:
This pass, Puerta, between the desert and the cooler valleys to the north, was used by the Mormon Battalion, Kearny's Army of the West, the Butterfield Overland Mail stages, and emigrants who eventually settled the West. The eroded scar on the left was the route of the Butterfield stages, 1858-1861. The road on the right served as a county road until recent years. Music and lyrics: John Malcolm Penn, © Radio Flyer Music.
The Butterfield Overland Mail Route & The Founding of Bridgeport - Part 2
To help celebrate Butterfield Stage Days - 2009, enjoy this insightful history about Bridgeport, TX. It's a personal tour featuring Col. Robert Marlett, known as Bridgeport's John Butterfield. This is Part 2, the continuing story of the Butterfield Overland Mail Trail and the founding of Bridgeport.
[Butterfield Trail] Tucson, Saguaro, Cienega, & Tombstone - (Day 8) [4K]
I gazed at the birds soaring above my camp in Tuscon Mountain Park and wondered if they were perhaps the same birds that greeted me the morning before, further back along the historic Butterfield Overland Stagecoach Route.
As they moved on, I knew it was time for me to follow suit. Saguaro National Park surrounds the major metropolitan area of Tucson, and is actually divided in to two halves, the East and West portions. I had driven through much of the Western portion the day before, and do a short tour of the Eastern side, today.
I headed in to Tucson to see if there were any remnants of the old ‘Tucson Station’… all I was able to find was this Dairy Queen (where my map indicated a station once stood). I’m sure a blizzard would have been outstanding on the trail.
My next stop was to head to the famous Desert Rat Off Road Center, replacing the TREDs I lost on my 5th Day on the trail… be sure to check out that video if you haven’t seen it! From there I went to a local outdoor store, Summit Hut to replenish some other essentials.
It was midday, and awful hot, so I stopped for a photo before heading into the Saguaro National Park – West. With this being a slight detour from the Butterfield, I left the bike mounted, and did a quick car tour of the park, enjoying the flora and views of the park…
After the scenic loop, I was headed to search for Cienega Station! The Cienega station is a storied station in the local area, and was at the literal crossroads of mankind, dating back to the Paleo-Indian era. I found Edward Vail’s writings on the area to be fitting, and I’ve shared them here with you.
From the Cochise and Apache tribes, pioneers, Butterfield Stagemen, and railroad workers, the area had certainly seen its share of travel. I had a couple of leads from my research on the whereabouts of this station, so I set forth to see what I could discover.
As I was traveling eastbound, my first clues led me to a turnoff from the highway, and an abandoned cowpen near the railway… the rail was a good sign, as many tracks mirrored, or even covered the original route of the Butterfield… I decided to do an investigative hike, and was greeted with a passing freight train.
In multiple writings I found in my research, the location of this station varies, and very likely could have been moved throughout the operation of the stage line. The first location lead me to this opening, east of the railway. However, I read there was another location further along Cienega creek, so I continued onward to explore.
This lead me to a turnoff for the Cienega Creek Preserve. At the “THREE BRIDGES” landmark. what appeared to be a popular hiking destination.. A short ways east of the parking lot lies what I believe to be the intact ruins of the Cienega Station of the Butterfield Stagecoach.
To my delight, upon examining the site, there are clearly ruins of the foundations and walls of the old station, and a plethora of metal scraps and artifacts in the vicinity. This was a particularly exciting find, as it had been some time since I’d discovered the actual remains of one of the stations themselves. The reports of this station say it was once 60 by 114 feet, with living quarters, stock corrals, and more… the station burned down in 1862. Shortly afterwards the US Army camped here during the civil war. I believe many of the metal scraps and other debris were remnants of the rail construction in the area over the past 150 years, largely a home to Chinese laborers in the 1880s.
After surveying the ruins, I headed back to my truck at Three Bridges, and was off to the next station along the route, the San Pedro River Station. I was looking forward to seeing a river station, although, even in Ormsby’s 1858 account of the trail, he described the flow as insignificant, despite a lush, green valley… 160 years later, that account still held true. The crossings was a sandy wash, and due to the development of the town of Benson, the station has all but disappeared.
From Benson, I drove into the town of Tombstone; you’re instantly transported back to the 19th century. The town has done a superb job of retaining its lineage and history, and I was already glad that I decided to visit.
I also had to inspect the local brew and resupply my coolers... Tombstone has an outstanding brewer , I highly recommend their cleverly named “ANOTHER EXERCISE IN MEDIOCRITY” IPA.
As the sun set over Tucson, I dropped in to the Crystal Palace Saloon, made some friends, and then set off into the night….
Where I made some more friends… I’d been around a lot of backroads, but I’d never encountered a pack of horses out roaming around.
From there, I headed up into the Coronado National Forest, and the Dragoon Mountains towards the Cochise Stronghold.
Dragoon Springs Station
This is 2WD road to an historic stage stop and the only Confederate grave site in Arizona
Stagecoach Ride
Old West Tucson Stagecoach