Examples of Stagecoach in the following topics:
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- The Overland Trail (also known as the Overland Stage Line) was a stagecoach and wagon trail in the American west during the 19th century.
- The Overland Stage Company owned by Ben Holladay famously used the Overland Trail to run mail and passengers to Salt Lake City, Utah, via stagecoaches in the early 1860s.
- The stage line operated until 1869, when completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad eliminated the need for mail service via stagecoach.
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- The second major type of banditry was conducted by the infamous outlaws of the West, including Jesse James, Billy the Kid, the Dalton Gang, Black Bart, Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch, and hundreds of others who preyed on banks, trains, and stagecoaches.
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- The construction of the railroad resulted in the end of most of the far slower and more hazardous stagecoach lines and wagon trains.
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- Known as the California "Robin Hood," Joaquin Murieta led a gang in the 1850s which burned houses, killed miners, and robbed stagecoaches.
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- She committed one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies in the United States.