Conestoga Wagons--Disneyland History--TMS-440

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00:09behind the gates of frontier land is the inspirational america of the past century

00:15here is the treasure of our native folklore the songs tales and legends of the big men

00:21who built the land

00:22wagon makers were reviving the nearly forgotten art of building stagecoaches

00:35surries buggies buckboards and conestoga wagons these will provide transportation around the

00:43park and will we hope ease the age-old problem of aching feet

00:48close by another craft was being revived the art of the wheelwright

00:54it takes a lot of skill and money of practice to heat a metal wheel rim to the exact temperature

01:00then fit and cool it without scorching the wood

01:04of course the traditional colleague of the wagon maker and the wheelwright is the harness maker

01:11but we discovered this skill had well nigh disappeared with high-button shoes

01:15so like other studio craftsmen he had to teach himself at all but forgotten art

01:21to pull our three-quarter scale stagecoaches covered wagons and horse-drawn streetcars

01:27we needed scaled down animals

01:29shetland ponies and corsican donkeys were the answer

01:33when they arrived from distant corners of the world

01:36they took up quarters next to the harness shop

01:39there weren't enough of them so we went into the breeding

01:42the conestoga wagons were part of the original frontier land

01:46the wooden wagons were replicas of horse-drawn vehicles

01:48each disneyland wagon was pulled by at least two horses

01:52held about a dozen guests and true to the pioneer spirit

01:55had westward hoe or organ or bust painted on its canvas top

01:59high overhead unpredictability of the animals

02:02and a low guest capacity forced the closure of the conestoga wagon in 1960

02:07out of the land of the land of the nadolius

02:27now

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