[A Souvenir Photograph of a Donkey Ride up East Mountain]
Description:
Entertainment for the many visitors to Mineral Wells around the turn of the twentieth century was provided, in part, by donkey rides up a trail to the top of East Mountain. The donkey trail crossed a 1,000-step staircase, built in 1905, to the top of the mountain about half-way up.
Photographers, first J.C. McClure and then J.L. Young, took souvenir photographs of the visitors at this crossing.
This photograph of the Belcher family was a taken by J. D. McClure. Mr. John M. Belcher …
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Date:
1900?
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