Overland Stage Ruts

Overland Stage Ruts

Overland Stage Trail ruts as seen from Signature Rock, northwest of Fort Collins, Colorado.

"...we[ox train] made a good days travel and a good way through the gaps in the hills..we passed a wagon trail ...Evans trail made last year [1849]..."June 20 & 21, 1850 Diary.

After fourteen years of emigrant use over the 1849 Evans Cherokee Trace, Ben Holliday's Overland Stage Company received permission from the Postal Department [July 8, 1862] to move his stage route from the Oregon/South Pass onto the Cherokee Trail. It became called the Cherokee/Overland Trail.

Westward!

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