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Across The Fence: The Hat Creek Outpost

“My grandfather [Edmond Alfred Cook] was a stagecoach driver on the Cheyenne to Black Hills Stage Line. He grew up working in a livery and knew how to handle horses. One day, at the Hat Creek Station, a driver for the stage line had shown up for work, drunk. The station manager shouted, ‘Does anybody here know how to drive a six-up team?’ ‘I do!’ Grandpa said, as he raised his hand. He was 14 years old.”

This was the beginning of a wonderful day-long tour that my wife, Deb, and I received as we stood at the bottom of the stairway that led to the second story of the Stagecoach Museum in Lusk, W...

 

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