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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: June 7, 2016
Caption: Along the Cheyenne to Deadwood Stage: Hat Creek Stage Station Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (top center) Stagecoaches following the Cheyenne-Deadwood Stage Route left wheel ruts in the soft sedimentary rock of this region. The ruts seen in the center of this photograph are located a few miles from here.; (bottom center) The Stagecoach Museum in Lusk displays the only survivor of 30 coaches used on the Cheyenne-Deadwood Stage Route.; (map on right) The Cheyenne-Deadwood Stage Route ran approximately 300 miles along the western border of Wyoming Territory between 1876 and 1887.; (sidebar on left) The Hat Creek Stage Station is the last station standing on the Cheyenne-Deadwood Stage Route. In 1927, the Daughters of the American Revolution erected a monument to the memory of those who operated the stage line and traveled the route.
Submitted: September 28, 2016, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p364274
File Size: 3.592 Megabytes

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