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Overland Stage Trail - Trek No. One

Annals of Wyoming 33:1:72-101
Contributors: Maurine Carley (trek historian), L.C. [Loren Clark] Bishop, Leeland Grieve, Kleber Hadsell, Willing Richardson, L.E. Dixon, A.S. Gillespie, Amy Lawrence, Mary Lou Pence, Mrs. W.J. Logan Sr., Edith R. Williams,
PHOTO: Loren Clark Bishop.

PHOTO: Courtesy of Pierre LaBonte, Jr. - Albert Sims who assisted L.C. Bishop in planning and leading the Emigrant Trail Treks.

The Overland Stage Trail Trek No. One - Trek No. 11 of Emigrant Trail Treks led by L.C. Bishop, Albert Sims and Lyle Hildebrand, covered 127 miles of the Overland Stage Trail from Virginia Dale Stage Station, which is just in Colorado, to the North Platte Stage Station near Saratoga, Wyoming. Seventy five participants trekked in September 1960. Presentations were made:
1) Virginia Dale Stage Station on the Overland Route by Edith R. Williams;
2) More history of Virginia Dale by Mrs. W.J. Logand, Sr.;
3) Fort Sanders -- Sentinel of the Laramie Plains by Mary Lou Pence;
4) W.H. Lawrence Ranch by Amy Lawrence;
5) Short history of the Cooper Creek area by Mr. A.S. Gillespie;
6) History of Arlington by L.E. Dixon;
7) The Cherokee Pack Trail by Willing Richardson;
8) Medicine Bow Stage Station, now Elk Mountain Post Office by Willing Richardson;
9) Fort Halleck by Kleber Hadsell; and
10) Platte River Crossing by Leeland Grieve.

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