Grandparents, kids and myself packed the car and hit the highway travelling 75 miles an hour to the festivities! A bit faster than the group travelling 3 1/2 miles and hour with horses and wagons!! If you ever read (and loved!!) the Little House on the Prairie series... this is right up your alley! I thought it would be a good history lesson for the kids too.
It would have been a better lesson if they had actually ridden on the trail... but I think Thor understood when I said it took them more than 2 weeks to get here from Pierre... (it usually takes us 3 1/2 - 4 hours by car!). 
Liv sitting and waiting for the train to arrive.
We ate our picnic lunch while waiting for the train to pull into Deadwood. There were plenty of other's waiting with us... according to the papers, hundreds of people lined the streets. Then we saw them coming... what a picture of mixed up centuries!! Two police cars with flashing lights... cars going out of town, and a Wagon Train (mostly authentically 1800's) coming down the hill into town!
We didn't count, but according to the RC Journal there were approximately 300 people involved, riding or supporting, the wagons, stagecoaches, single riders, etc. This is my uncle Bill riding "shotgun" (actually with a rifle, "guarding" the coach.
Here are some more pictures I uploaded from various websites and newspaper sites...
On the trail in the prairies...
Following I-90 as they leave Sturgis/Ft. Meade area...
A mule-wagon sometime between 1874-1908, from the original Ft. Pierre/Deadwood trail.
1 comment:
Wow, that would have been cool! Does he do that every year? How far does he actually travel?
What did the kids think of that?
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