[PRCo] Re: Museums

[Fred W. Schneider III]

It is appropriate.  We've been offered a Conestoga Wagon.  

Charles Brown wrote:
> 
> Just to finish off what I started, I searched the internet for
> stagecoach info.  There is relatively little info on the subject.  Found
> several links to a stagecoach museum in Lusk, Wyoming, but their website
> seems to be down.  Don't know if it is a restored stage station or a
> collection of stagecoaches.  The most promising is an outfit in Mancos,
> Colorado, that offers 1 hour and 3 hour stagecoach rides with drivers
> who tell the complete history of stagecoaches including the various
> builders.  That suggests that they have a collection of various
> stagecoaches.
> 
> Also found a site about a stagecoach trip that was to take place earlier
> this year (don't know if it came off or not) from St. Louis to
> Tombstone, Arizona following the old Butterfield trail using an original
> Concord coach.  I checked Knott's Berry Farm's website and they still
> have the stagecoach ride out there using original Butterfield coaches.
> Finally, I found an outfit, Justin Carriages, who builds stagecoaches as
> well as wagons, buckboards, and omnibuses.
> 
> It dawned on me that having a stagecoach and omnibus at PTM might be
> appropriate to demonstrate the modes of travel before the interurban and
> streetcar (hah, and y'all were thinking that this subject is off topic).
> 
> Charlie
> 
> Charlesebrown at webtv.net