Taking a ride through history

Friday, November 11, 2016
A stage coach makes its way along the Indian Creek Reservoir area from the Boise Stage Stop west of Mountain Home during a recent historical reenactment. Hosted by High Desert Horses with involvement by the Mountain Home Historical Museum, the Wild West Stage Coach Ride and Dutch Oven Cowboy Luncheon offered participants a chance to see firsthand some of the challenges travelers faced as they crossed through southern Idaho's high desert terrain enroute to an authentic recreation of a western town. While riding through the desert, a band of people playing the role of bandits "robbed" the unsuspecting guests before the stage coach driver came to the rescue. The Boise Stage Stop's history dates back to 1890 when it served as a general store and post office. It was also a site of at least one murder in which Joseph Boyle was killed by a thief that robbed his store -- a case that today remains unsolved.

A stage coach makes its way along the Indian Creek Reservoir area from the Boise Stage Stop west of Mountain Home during a recent historical reenactment. Hosted by High Desert Horses with involvement by the Mountain Home Historical Museum, the Wild West Stage Coach Ride and Dutch Oven Cowboy Luncheon offered participants a chance to see firsthand some of the challenges travelers faced as they crossed through southern Idaho's high desert terrain enroute to an authentic recreation of a western town. While riding through the desert, a band of people playing the role of bandits "robbed" the unsuspecting guests before the stage coach driver came to the rescue. The Boise Stage Stop's history dates back to 1890 when it served as a general store and post office. It was also a site of at least one murder in which Joseph Boyle was killed by a thief that robbed his store -- a case that today remains unsolved.

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