Rittenhouse, Jack D. (Jack DeVere), 1912-

Stagecoach Press was a small handpress exclusively devoted to printing fine books, pamphlets, and leaflets on Southwestern Americana. Jack D. Rittenhouse was the owner-publisher as well as the editor, pressman, and salesman for this small private press. Rittenhouse ventured into publishing as a hobby in the 1940s in Los Angeles, California where he owned the Jack Rittenhouse Advertising Agency. With experience in bookselling and advertisement he moved the Stagecoach Press (renamed in 1949) in the mid-1950s to Houston, Texas, before settling in 1962 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Jack Rittenhouse retired in 1978 and Stagecoach Press ceased to exist with Jack Rittenhouse's death in 1991.

From the guide to the Stagecoach Press Samples Collection, 1955-1988, (Fray Angélico Chávez History Library, Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A.)

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