Red Cloud Wolverton

Stagecoach 76 (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Wolverton, Wendy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

On the bright, sunny morning of May 25, 1976, we hooked up six head of registered Morgan horses to a Concord stagecoach near the Pony Express stables in St. Joe Missouri. After taking on a load of passengers, mail, and a strongbox containing close to $ 9,000.00 worth of silver medallions, we headed west to relive 100 days of our country's history, from the period between 1858 to 1869, when the stagecoach was the utmost in high speed transportation from the end of the rails to the goldfields of California. It was the most thrilling and interesting 100 days of our lives. All in all, the trip went smoothly, but even at the best, we had our trials and troubles along the way. We drove close to 2000 miles, driving the horses and coach every foot of the way, and we arrived on schedule. It was a great trip and everybody enjoyed it very much. I'm sure the whole crew feels like I do - hoping that someday we'll figure out a way to do it over again.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wendy Wolverton
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781737819219
• Artikelnr.: 68428674

Autorenporträt

'Red Cloud', as he is known in the cattle country, has been a working cowboy and horseman all his life. Raised on a ranch in Colorado, he quit school at sixteen and went to work breaking mules to drive for the ZX Ranch at Paisley, Oregon, until he got hired on 'with the wagon'. "All I ever wanted to be was a 'big ranch' cowboy. The first 30 years of my life, I didn't know I could make a living if I wasn't ahorseback. I liked punching cows, riding broncs, and driving fast horses. I took part in a stagecoach holdup at a rodeo, which eventually evolved into getting one of my own and breaking 6-up hitches of Morgan horses to pull it. Two of the highlights were our 1976 stagecoach trip from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California; and our invitation to President Carter's Inaugural Parade in 1977, representing the 17 western states. We started providing horses for the movies in 1975 with 'White Buffalo'. Been at it ever since, including 'Tombstone', 'The Alamo', and 'Into The West'." His first published work was the story of the Bi-Centennial stagecoach trip "Stagecoach 76', in 'The Tombstone Epitaph'. His current stories in "The Cowboy" magazine are of his life as a working cowboy. Red lives lives with his wife on their horse ranch near Tucson, Arizona.