COBB & CO LICENSED TO CARRY

摘要

The pioneering 19th-century coaching conglomerate won — and lost — a great deal during its turbulent 70-year history, driving a vast network of mail and passenger routes across the outback. Imagine, if YOU will, that it's 1898 in Brisbane, Queensland. You're a young schoolteacher fresh off the boat from London and you're headed for Adavale, a township 1000 km inland. A 12-hour train ride carries you 800 km to the end of the line at Charleville. From here, your only option is a horsedrawn Cobb and Co. mail coach. You've paid the equivalent of nearly two weeks wages for your ticket and limited your worldly belongings to the stipulated 14 pounds (6.35 kg). The 200 km coach journey is scheduled to take three days, with food and lodging provided at bush inns along the way.