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Introduction:
Join us June, 11th 12th and 13th – 2010 for the 6th Annual Cheyenne To Deadwood Run - No registration or fee. 2 or 4 wheels welcome. You can even hitch a ride.
The official name of the original stage run in 1876 was, “Cheyenne and Black hills Stage and Express Line”.
Although the black hills stage wasn’t as significant as the Overland Stage, there isn't any doubts this stage run had more stories and attracted more attention than any other. The fame of the stage and even Deadwood itself was assured by having passengers like Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Wyatt Earp. It was a regular mention in dime store novels. The stage was also a routine re-enactment of Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show. The coach was purchased by Col. Cody in 1911 and is now on exhibit at the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody Wyoming.
The stage line initially ran from Cheyenne Wyoming via Horse Creek, Bear Springs, Chugwater, Chug Springs, Eagle's Nest, and Fort Laramie. At Hat Creek Station, (north of present day Lusk) the stage road split, one branch continuing due north past the aptly named “Robbers Roost” that Follows the approximate line of our present-day Highway 85 into Deadwood. We can imagine Hickok Earp Calamity and Cody appreciating our modern day run.
In 1877 E.L. Wheeler wrote; "Rumbling like thunder as it pressed through the canyon and up the road to Deadwood. Arriving an hour past midnight came the stage from Cheyenne. Plunging and heaving, six snarling horses pulled as the driver managed them like some crazed circus act, all the while the piercing crack of his whip made the night resound like so many pistol reports. Through a wild and trecherous time, in a canyon fringed with tall pines that occasionally admitted a bar of ghostly moonlight, across a road over which the stage tore with wild recklessness".
Todays run started with an idea in 2004 and has become a regular event every year since. Stops along the way to South Dakota are, Hawk Springs, Lingle, Lusk, the Buckhorn then arrive in Deadwood late Friday afternoon. Party Friday/Saturday night in Deadwood. Rides and a bike wash are scheduled for Saturday but you can be sure, no one is on the clock.
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"They are commemorating the people & stage of old and are on the trail of history, and making a little of their own" - Brandon Bennett, Black Hills Iron Magazine - June, 2008
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Join us June, 11th 12th and 13th – 2010 for the 6th Annual Cheyenne To Deadwood Run - No registration or fee. 2 or 4 wheels welcome. You can even hitch a ride.
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