(1).
AUTO ARRIVING


(2).
BEARDS AND COSTUMES


(3).
WAGONS ARRIVING


(4).
CHUCK WAGON


(5).
WAGON RUNNING


(6).
SHOTS - INSIDE ABOVE WAGON


(7).
WAGONS PASSING BY


(8).
WAGON TRAIN


(9).
WAGONS IN CIRCLE


(10).
HORSEMEN


(11).
WIDE SHOT -- WAGONS




Initials



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Background: ONE-HUNDRED-AND-TWENTY (120) WAGONS AND OVER THREE-HUNDRED (300) RIDERS TO MAKE THE FIFTY (50) MILE TRIP THRU THE GREAT SMOKEY MOUNTAINS OVER LOGGING TRAILS TO MURPHY, N.C. (CQ) (North Carolina). THE TOTAL CARAVAN WILL CONSIST OF SOME FIVE-HUNDRED (500) PEOPLE. ALL TYPES OF WAGONS WERE REPRESENTED FROM THE "SURREY WITH THE FRINGE ON TOP" TO THE REAL CONESTOGA (CQ) OF THE WESTERN MIGRATION -- SEVERAL OF THE WAGONS ARE OVER ONE-HUNDRED (100) YEARS OLD - WITH ONE OLD TIMER WITH THREE TRIPS TO CALIFORNIA TO ITS CREDIT. ONE ROUND TRIP (1860 -- eighteen sixty) DRAWN BY HORSES AND THE OTHER TWO SHIPPED BY RAIL. IT WAS USED IN "THE WAR" BETWEEN THE STATES" TO HAUL SUPPLIES TO THE CONFEDERATE FORCES.

THE TRIP WILL TAKE TWO (2) DAYS, WITH A CAMPOUT AT THE HEAD OF THE TELLICO RIVER (CQ) - THEN ACROSS THE NORTH CAROLINA BORDER TO MURPHY, N.C. (North Carolina) FOR A IMMENSE (CQ) FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION. WITH SOME 50-THOUSAND (50,000) TO 75-THOUSAND (75,000) PEOPLE EXPECTED.