Boot |
Deep luggage carrier of a stagecoach |
Box |
The stagedriver's seat |
Celerity wagon |
A stagecoach used in rough country. Also referred to as a mud wagon |
Conductor |
The person who road with the driver of a stagecoach and collected fares, took care of passengers, and had charge of the mail. |
| Division | 250 miles of trail belonging to a superintendent |
| Drag | object attached to the back of a stagecoach to slow it when going downhill |
| Driver | Drove the stage. Respected and only one revered. Changed often and often drove back and forth along the same route |
| Home station | Station at which meals were served to passengers |
| Hostlers | Took care of the horses at the stops. Helped hitch up new horses in sometimes less than four minutes. Often low, rough, characters; outlaws or criminals |
| Johnnycake | A kind of corn bread. Typically offered to travelers at a stage stop |
| Joiner | A carpenter who finishes inside woodwork such as doors, molding etc. |
| Overland | Across land rather than by water |
| Postrider | A mail carrier who traveled by horseback between specific places |
| Reinsman | A stagedriver |
| Relay | A team of horses kept in readiness at a way station to relieve the team of an approaching stagecoach |
| Run | The distance between stations on a stagecoach journey |
| Stagehorn | A horn blown by the conductor as the stage neared the station |
| Stageline | A stagecoach company |
| Station | The place at which a stagecoach stopped |
| Station keeper | One who is in charge of the station stop. |
| Superintendent or division agent | The person in charge of 250 miles of road on the overland route. He built the stations, purchased the horses and mules, harnesses, stages, hired and fired the station keepers, conductors, hostlers, drivers and blacksmiths. In charge of the whole division |
| Swing station | A station where only horses were changed |
| Transcontinental | Across the United States |
| Turnpike | A main road on which travelers paid a toll or fee |
| Way station | Same as station |
| Waybills | Advertisements for stagelines posted in towns and villages |
| Wheelwright | A person who makes of fixes wheels |