When did the last (non-tourist) commercial stagecoach line run in the USA?
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Homer Eon Flint (born as Homer Eon Flindt; 1888 –1924) was an American writer of pulp science fiction novels and short stories.
He began working as a scenarist for silent films in 1912 (reportedly at his wife's insistence). In 1918, he published "The Planeteer" in All-Story Weekly. His "Dr. Kinney" stories were reprinted by Ace Books in 1965, and with Austin Hall he co-wrote the novel The Blind Spot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Eon_Flint1
As I remember reading, Flint was planning to move to a town in the countryside at the time of his death in a mysterious auto accident.
The "apart" was about to end because at the time of his death he was set to move to Nevada City where he'd been hired to drive the daily stage. This employment, engineered equally by Homer and Mabel, would have made it possible for a father to see his family every day.
http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/articles/homer-eon-flint-a-legacy/2
None of that mattered to his widow and three children, and Mabel's last letter to him, written two days before Homer's death, stands as testimony of what was lost. "Well, I hope we see you on the stage Saturday and anyway we'll be listening to the phone Friday. No school in the afternoon. Maybe a letter that comes tomorrow will tell me when you'll start from San Jose. Love in big armfuls and kisses from your dreaming family and from her who soon will be. It has snowed a lot this evening, but it isn't snowing now. XXX XXX XXX XXX, Mabel."
http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/articles/homer-eon-flint-a-legacy/2
Nevada City is in California, and about 18.9 miles by road from Washington, California where his wife Mabel had a job as a schoolteacher.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_City,_California3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_California4
Therefore it seems possible that there was an operating stage line in Nevada County, California around Nevada City and Washington in 1924. And if there was a horse drawn stage line and not a motorized stage line in Nevada County, California in 1924 It should have been one of the last ones in the country if the research by Kerry L in his question is any guide.
PS here is a link to the Nevada County California website. https://www.nevadacountyhistory.org/ 5
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The last ever stagecoach robbery took place in Globe, AZ in 1916. During the 1920s there were stagecoach taxi services that took people to places in a city and in the area. But the last freight hauled by horses was in the 1950s. In the Big Bend area of Texas there were illegal Candelaria wax plant growing operations and they used burro carts to haul the goods across the Rio Grande into the United States.
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