Traveling from Hazen to Evergreen, Colorado chances are you are going to travel on two important old stage coach routes. One stage ran from Bismarck to Deadwood, and the other ran from Cheyenne to Deadwood. By chance Kadizzle stopped at a historic marker to empty his radiator. The marker gave a brief history of the Bismarck stage. That stagecoach could make the run from Bismark to Deadwood in 36 hours. It must have been a grueling trip. Later in the day as the Kadizzle adventure searched for a place to pitch a tent they had to go looking for Tom. The Kadizzles wanted to camp in the yard of an old school they found down a gravel road. Some fellows at the intersection said Tom was down at the old stage coach stop cutting the grass for the election on Tuesday. When we found Tom he said we could camp at the school house and gave us a brief history of the Cheyenne to Deadwood stage. His grandfather had been a driver on that road. This is the stage stop.
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