A touring wagon used to carry tourists through Yellowstone National Park from approximately 1892 to 1916, recently returned to the Wyoming State Museum following conservation work in South Dakota.
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CHEYENNE – A touring wagon used to carry tourists through Yellowstone National Park from approximately 1892 to 1916, recently returned to the Wyoming State Museum following conservation work in South Dakota.
Only a small number of the original Yellowstone Touring Wagons are known to have survived through the past century.
Initially, the wagon was to be stripped to bare wood and then made to appear as it would have during the early 1900s. However, careful examination revealed that many of the wagon’s original decorative details have survived its later use.
“Early in the project, I received an excited call from the conservators who wanted to tell me that some testing had shown the original paint and lettering applied in the New Hampshire factory appeared to be still intact under all the later applications of paint.” Jim Allison, manager of the wagon project for the