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Happy trails: Highway 50 wagon train marks 77th year of Gold Rush reenactment

SUMMER SLOWDOWNS ON CALIFORNIA ROADWAYS are par for the course. Families in RVs hitting the road, fishermen with boats, and truckers hauling cargo. But for one special week every year, dozens of people in covered wagons pulled by horses join the traffic on Highway 50 to celebrate the area’s golden history. Since 1949, a group […] The post Happy trails: Highway 50 wagon train marks 77th year of Gold Rush reenactment appeared first on Local News Matters .

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SUMMER SLOWDOWNS ON CALIFORNIA ROADWAYS are par for the course. Families in RVs hitting the road, fishermen with boats, and truckers hauling cargo. But for one special week every year, dozens of people in covered wagons pulled by horses join the traffic on Highway 50 to celebrate the area’s golden history. Since 1949, a group […] The post Happy trails: Highway 50 wagon train marks 77th year of Gold Rush reenactment appeared first on Local News Matters .

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According to Local News Matters’s linked item, Happy trails: Highway 50 wagon train marks 77th year of Gold Rush reenactment, SUMMER SLOWDOWNS ON CALIFORNIA ROADWAYS are par for the course. Families in RVs hitting the road, fishermen with boats, and truckers hauling cargo. But for one special week every year, dozens of people in covered wagons pulled by horses join the traffic on Highway 50 to celebrate the area’s golden history. Since 1949, a group […] The post Happy trails: Highway 50 wagon train marks 77th year of Gold Rush reenactment appeared first on Local News Matters .

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