The Overland Trail

• Jules Beni The Showdown with Jack Slade.
• Jim Bridger Hunter, Trapper, Guide, and Scout.
• Virginia "Dale" Slade for whom the station was named.
• Employees of the Stage Line: From Drivers to Stock Tenders.
• Other Employees and Influential People On the Overland Stage Line
• Drivers of the Overland Stage LineIncludes "Wild Bill" and "Buffalo Bill"
• Jim Enos, "Station Hunter"
• Gravesites at Virginia Dale
• Dr. J. H. Finfrock, staff doctor at Fort Halleck
• Ben Holladay, the "Stagecoach King"
• Albert Huston, "Company Hunter."
• Antoine Janis French trader, early settler and peacemaker
• Mariano Medina: "First white'ee man on the Creek!" Thanks to the Jim Baker Party of American Mountain Men for this information!
• Messengers on the Overland Stage Line
• Lady Moon, a "lady" from Livermore...
• The Musgrove Gang Overland Trail horse thieves and cattle rustlers.
• George Pingree a Poudre Pioneer
• Jack Slade, high adventure on the high plains
• The Arrest and Execution of Captain J. A. Slade With a Short Account of His Previous Career.
• Jack Slade's Gravesite
• "Song of the Overland Stage-Driver" written in 1865 by Nat Stein, stage driver.
• Voices From The Past: Accounts of Bread Baking, Rules of the Road, Drunk Drivers...
• Women In Transit--the true pioneers