Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Wagon Days: Celebrating Ketchum’s frontier heritage

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By EXPRESS STAFF

Express file photo

This Labor Day weekend, Sept. 3-6, the city of Ketchum will host the historic Wagon Days celebration, a four-day extravaganza to commemorate the Wood River Valley's rich frontier-era history.

The annual Wagon Days Big Hitch Parade, on Saturday, Sept. 4, at 1 p.m., is the highlight of the celebration. It has grown into the largest non-motorized parade in the West, displaying dozens of museum-quality buggies, carriages, tacks, carts, buckboards and wagons of every variety in existence today.

The grand finale of the parade is the presentation of the Big Hitch itself. Powered by an authentic 20-mule jerkline, the hitch is a historic wagon train once used to haul ore from regional mines.

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Adding some additional spice to the parade is a lively assortment of authentically costumed people, numerous breeds of horses—from Arabs to Morgans to pasos—and marching bands from around the state.

The weekend celebration is rounded out by antique shows, reenactments of frontier-gang shootouts, a kids carnival and a fundraising rubber-duck race on the Big Wood River. Other events are scheduled throughout the valley, including a family-oriented Labor Day parade and celebration in Bellevue.

Saddle up! The fun is about to begin.

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