If you are one of those folks who missed the stage coach ride last fall, and still want to experience this rare treat, you’re in luck—the team is being hitched up again.
Last November several folks were unable to attend and other had to be turned away from a presentation entitled “Riding the Stage thru the Saratoga & Encampment Area”; so an encore presentation is scheduled for Thursday evening, March 7th, beginning at 6:30 in the Saratoga Branch Library at 305 West Elm Avenue.
History buffs and folks interested in this area’s pictorial heritage are invited to climb aboard the stage running from Walcott Junction, Wyo., to Pearl, Colo., for a 45 minute narrated video stage coach ride to be presented by local historian Dick Perue of Historical Reproductions by Perue.
Perue is a collector of Saratoga & Encampment valley history and is working to “preserve local history one picture at a time” through programs, publications and contributions to both the Saratoga and Grand Encampment Museums.
Sponsored by Friends of the Saratoga Library, the free “ride” features more than 150 local photographs, drawings and maps, with descriptions. Refreshments will be served following the slide show.
Perue noted that it is an informal presentation spotlighting the people, animals, places, towns, ranches and scenery a person would have encountered if they rode a stage coach from Walcott Junction south to Pearl during the period of 1878 to 1910.
The same illustrations are featured in a publication by Perue, called “Riding the Stage”, which will be available for those wishing to purchase it. By popular request, Perue has also made several copies of the famous stage and team picture, and those will also be available to purchase.
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