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The Virginia Dale stage station was established in 1862 by Jack Slade, former station manager at Julesburg, Colorado where he famously got into a dispute with Jules Beni. Beni had previously shot Slade five times but Slade survived and exacted his revenge by ambushing Beni, tying him to a fencepost and shooting off his fingers before delivering a coup de grace to the head. Slade kept Beni's ears as trophies. While station master in Julesburg, Slade met and breakfasted with Samuel Clemens, "Mark Twain" and made quite an impression upon Twain. Twain wrote about his encounter with Slade in his 1872 publication "Roughing It".

When Ben Holladay took over the Overland Stage in 1862, he changed the route, taking it south from Julesberg along the South Platte River to Greeley and then up the old Cherokee Trail through Latham, LaPorte, Virginia Dale, Colorado, and into Wyoming.

Virginia Dale was a "home station" on the Overland Trail, meaning that passengers could disembark, g...

Anderson R. Moore a western artist. Work in many mediums; metal smith engraver, silk artist, painting in many other mediums. Whats new, over the last five years she has been learning the new skills of hand engraving, horse hair hitching. More to come! Anderson R. Moore has been creating her western art for over thirty years. She is well known for her western art including, her Teepees, fly fishing and scratch board art and now engraving and hitching horse hair. She has shown her art in Seattle, Idaho and most recently in Colorado. Ms Moore is a member of Cowgirl Artists of America. Anderson's work currently hangs in private collections, corporations, world wide. The artists work posted on Fine Art America is here for a limited time...