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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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