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SUMMARY:Engineering the Lewis Big Hitch Ore Wagons with Doug Hansen
DESCRIPTION:An Up-Close Look at the Ingenuity Behind Ketchum’s Ore Wagons 
 with Wagonmaker Doug Hansen\n\nWhen you need to restore an antique ore 
 wagon\, who do you turn to? Doug Hansen was the obvious choice when the 
 City of Ketchum needed to restore the ore wagons because he is the nation's 
 premier restorer and builder of historically accurate wagons.\n\nOn the 
 Thursday afternoon of Wagon Days weekend\, Doug Hansen will lead an 
 interactive exploration of the engineering\, operation\, and ingenuity of 
 Ketchum’s Lewis Ore Wagons. The complete hitch will be on display on 
 Fourth Street outside the Wood River Museum of History   Culture and Hansen 
 will explain how these massive freighting vehicles were built to meet the 
 demanding conditions of the Wood River Valley and surrounding mining 
 districts. The program offers a rare opportunity to examine the wagons up 
 close alongside the expert entrusted with their repair and restoration 
 work.\n\nBuilt for H. C. Lewis’s Ketchum Fast Freight operation\, the 
 massive freighting wagons served the mining communities of central Idaho. 
 They carried ore from remote mountain mines down to the smelters and 
 returned to the mines with food\, mule feed\, tools\, equipment\, 
 dynamite\, and other provisions needed to sustain isolated mining 
 camps.\n\nDoug Hansen turned a youthful passion for old-world craftsmanship 
 into an internationally renowned business still rooted on family land in 
 Letcher\, S.D. Hansen Wheel & Wagon Shop has restored and built wagons and 
 stagecoaches for museums\, theme parks\, film and TV productions\, 
 collectors\, reenactors and people who just plain like to travel by wagon. 
 This talk is presented by the City of Ketchum in coordination with the Wood 
 River Museum of History   Culture.\n\nRegistration encouraged\, but not 
 required. The event will be held on 4th Street in front of the Wood River 
 Museum\, where the Ore Wagons will be staged all day Thursday\, September 
 3.\n\n
LOCATION:Wood River Museum of History and Culture\, Wood River Museum of History and Culture
ORGANIZER;CN="Kristine Bretall":MAILTO:kbretall@comlib.org
CATEGORIES:Regional History
CONTACT;CN="Kristine Bretall":MAILTO:kbretall@comlib.org
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URL:https://thecommunitylibrary.libcal.com/event/17253060
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