Stage Coach And Tavern Days

by Alice Morse Earle

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Genres: History

528 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1900

About the author

Alice Morse Earle was an American historian and author from Worcester, Massachusetts. She was christened Mary Alice by her parents Edwin Morse and Abby Mason Clary. On 15 April 1874, she married Henry Earle of New York, changing her name from Mary Alice Morse to Alice Morse Earle. Her writings, beginning in 1890, focussed on small sociological details rather than grand details, and thus are invaluable for modern sociologists. She wrote a number of books on colonial America (and especially the New England region) such as Curious Punishments of Bygone Days. She was a passenger aboard the RMS Republic when, while in a dense fog, that ship collided with the SS Florida. During the transfer of passengers, Alice fell into the water. Her near drowning in 1909 off the coast of Nantucket during this abortive trip to Egypt weakened her health sufficiently that she died two years later, in Hempstead, Long Island.

Reviews

[Richard Subber]

Old-fashioned, folksy prose. Stage Coach and Tavern Days is just dripping with details for the sincere history buff or historian.
Just in case you forgot, taking a ride in a stagecoach was a noisy, dusty, bone-thumping experience…and there was no onboard bathroom.
If you have a secret love affair with stage coaches, and taverns, and spirituous beverages in the 18th century, dive in.

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[Avis Black]

This volume gives you an incredible amount of information about travel in the colonial era, much of it completely new and strange to the modern reader. Absolutely fascinating.

Available at Open Library:
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL21603...

[Christina Gagliano]

The circa 1900 writing itself makes this book worth reading-what a historical gem! Plus, I can now make rum flip.

[Joshua]

(project gutenberg edition: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37272/... )

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The American obsession with the automobile is not a new thing: "Horseflesh was so plentiful that “no one walked save a vagabond or a fool.” Doubtless our national characteristic of never walking a step when we can ride dates from the days “when we lived under the King.” Driving alone, that is, a man or woman driving for pleasure alone, without a driver or post-boy, is an American fashion. It was carried back to Europe by both the French and English officers who were here in Revolutionary times. The custom was noted with approval by the French in their various books and letters on this country."