RIDIN' THE RAILS & TRAILS IN THE OLD WEST
Whether ya rode in on your horse, a stagecoach or even on the train, we're glad ya made it! Here at our depot and horse corral, you can find yerself a really good way to travel! Just check out our schedules and packages below and you'll soon have cargo comin' right to yer door! Make sure ya leave some stars so's we can git some law around here before them gun-slingers start takin a notion to rob our stagehands and railroad engineers! Seems like our rails and trails are gittin' to be purdy scary in some places!
Leave yer letter down there in the telegraph box and we'll send it on by the pony express when it comes thru. If ya git tired of walkin, we rent out a horse 'n buggy. Or you can rent just a wagon if ya need to haul somethin' somewheres.
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Beginning in the 1830's, the nation realized the need to connect the east with the Pacific coast, shortly after the railroads began large scale operations. The first survey for a transcontinental railroad system was made in 1849-50 by Howard Stansbury, who surveyed a route through the Black Hills and south of Salt Lake City. read more
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In 1832 Samuel F. B. Morse, assisted by Alfred Vail, conceived of the idea for an electromechanical telegraph, which he called the "Recording Telegraph." This commercial application of electricity was made tangible by their construction of a crude working model in 1835-36. /historywired.si.edu/detail.cfm?ID=324">read more
In 1852 Henry Wells and William Fargo opened an office in San Francisco to serve the Gold rush prospectors who needed to send their Gold east. Within 15 years of founding in San Francisco Wells, Fargo and Company had absorbed or driven every serious rival out of business and had become the most important mail deliverer, bank, express agency, and stagecoach company in the West. The name of Wells Fargo is well entrenched in Western history and was so well known that miners swore only "By God and Wells Fargo." ...read more
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The Pony Express was a fast mail service crossing the North American continent from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, from April 1860 to October 1861. It became the nation's most direct means of east-west communication before the telegraph and was vital for tying California closely with the Union just before the American Civil War. read more
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Leave yer name 'n we'll holler at ya when yer rides ready! While yer at it, tell us yer favorite way to travel!
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