Wheels of time: Stagecoach tours provide peak into history at Wrangler Springs Ranch
Doug Howser and Dale Mee tell stories about Wrangler Springs Ranch during a stagecoach ride Friday, July 19. (Avery Howe/Bigfork Eagle)
Dale and Pat Mee and Doug Howser of Bigfork Stagecoach Rides and Rentals at Wrangler Springs Friday, July 19. (Avery Howe/Bigfork Eagle)
Dale Mee and Doug Howser on a stagecoach ride at Wrangler Springs Friday, July 19. (Avery Howe/Bigfork Eagle)
Doug Howser and Dale Mee ready their mule team for a ride Friday, July 19. (Avery Howe/Bigfork Eagle)
Reed Darrow, owner of Wrangler Springs Ranch, and his grandsons board a stagecoach for a ride around the grounds Friday, July 19. (Avery Howe/Bigfork Eagle)
Before the summer heat can fill the barn Dale Mee and Doug Howser are hooking the horses up to the stagecoach their mustaches waxed to hooked points “for historical accuracy, and a little drama.”
Bigfork Stagecoach Rides and Rentals is new to Wrangler Springs Ranch this summer, but stagecoaches have been running in the Flathead Valley since its early years of settlement.
The coach Mee and Howser pull a tall, rambling yellow and red wagon, which is called a Yellowstone stagecoach. It used to run through Yosemite National Park. Similar coaches would have run through Glacier National Park.
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