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Wagon Days Show and Poster Signing

Hi Everyone!  Please come and join us for Wagon Days Weekend. I will be signing posters and exhibiting my work on Friday, September 4th from 5 - 7pm (or later) at the Saddletree Gallery on Sun Valley Road in Ketchum, next to the (Yummmmy)  Rocky Mtn Chocolate Factory and Wise Guy Pizza or 460 Sun Valley Road.  Wagon Days Posters are selling and I couldn't be more delighted! Get yours on Friday.  Looking forward to seeing you!


See my posts below for information about Wagon Days.  Go to purevisionstudios.com to see all of the Wagon Days photos from last year under the Gallery Events/Wagon Days 50th Anniversary.

 

Teri Lee Niedrich/Pure Vision Studios Honored as Wagon Days 2009 Poster Artist

Last year I had the ride of my life shooting the 50th Anniversary Wagon Days Celebration in Ketchum and Sun Valley, Idaho.  Not only did I get the opportunity to ride in the lead wagon of Wagon Day's "Big Hitch", but I was given a rare chance to get a Pure Visionary look into this great, historic celebration.  The Wood River Valley is an extraordinary place.  I would bet that you would be hard pressed to find any local who wouldn't agree with me on that.  It's beauty is fierce and its people are fiercely passionate and full of life.  This will always be my home.

When I was told that my work, "Wagon Days - Echoes of the Past" had been chosen as the Wagon Days poster art, I was shocked, honored and admittedly "verklempt".  To even be included with such truly talented artists of many mediums who both compete for and win the honor of being chosen, I am truly appreciative and ecstatic.

Please visit my Wagon Days Post of last year and the Wagon Days Website to find out more about this unnique event that allows thousands of visitors and locals alike a peek into the inspiring history of the Wood River Valley where people of true grit carved out a future in this amazing place for us all to enjoy.

My sincere thanks to all of the Members of the Wagon Days Association. Check out my Wagon Days 50th HD Slideshow on YouTube. (Be sure to click HD button in the bottom right corner)

Wagon Days 50th Anniversary

The Big Hitch, Wagon Days Celebration, Sun Valley, Idaho


The Budweiser Clydesdales in Sun Valley Idaho

As celebrations go inKetchum, Sun Valley, Idaho it doesn't get any bigger than Wagon Days. The Big Hitch Parade is the highlight of the celebration. It has grown into the largest non-motorized parade in the West, displaying more than a hundred museum-quality buggies, carriages, tacks, carts, buckboards, and wagons of every variety in existence today. The Wagon Days Big Hitch, historic wagons used to haul ore from the area, are powered by an authentic 20-draft mule jerkline. Adding spice to the parade is a lively assortment of authentically costumed individuals, numerous breeds of horses, from Arabs to Morgans to Pasos. Plus, professional and scholastic marching bands from around the state and the intermountain west.

This year was the 50th Anniversary of Wagon Days and the legendary celebration did not disappoint.  The Budweiser Clydesdales were invited to join the parade along with the past Grand Marshalls of previous parades.  The event was not only a great tribute to the history of Idaho, but also a tribute to this close knit community, the organizers and volunteers of Wagon Days who truly make this celebration a successful party.

I felt privileged to be be invited to photograph all of the activities of this event, including a ride in the lead ore wagon of the big hitch at the practice session. As I bounced around like a rag doll in the massive wagon trying to capture the moment, my mind raced back to history when these great wagons traveled much more treacherous paths through the mountains.  I was in awe of the skill of Muleskinner Bobby Tanner and his amazing crew.  The mules of his team were exceptional world class athletes by anyone's standards! Check out Pure Vision Studios Events and Celebrations Gallery/Wagon Days 50th Anniversary and double click for the slide show.  Here you can see the massive ore wagons, historic wagons and the beautiful horses, mules and donkeys who pull them.  The classic colorful characters of the old west come alive to tell the tale of Wagon Days.

The Wells Fargo Stage, Wagon Days, Sun Valley, Idaho


The Blackjack Ketchum Shootout Gang Sun Valley, Idaho



Eh-Capa Rider, Wagon Days Parade 50th Anniversary, Sun Valley, Idaho