For more than 70 years, Cobb & Co. coaches and horses travelled millions of kilometres of unmade outback roads to provide communication links for many isolated communities. Nowhere was the influence of the legendary coaching company so widespread as in Queensland, where Cobb & Co. operated horse-drawn coaches from 1866 until succumbing to the motor vehicle in 1924.This special edition of Cobb & Co. Coaching in Queensland - redesigned and reissued for the centenary of the last coach service in Queensland - traces the rise and decline of this historic company. Drawing on extensive research, including interviews and correspondence with former employees and passengers, Deborah Tranter challenges myths about the company in this highly visual panorama of Queensland's formative years from the perspective of the people who built, drove, serviced and travelled on Cobb & Co. coaches.