Sacramento celebrates ‘Gold Rush Days’ over Labor Day weekend
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- A cowboy blows open a cash box in a reenactment.
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- In a reenactment, “Cole Younger,” played by Bobby Hubbell, fires a pistol while his partner, “Wild Bill Hickock,” played by Eric Leimtz, aims.
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- “Wild Bill Hickock,” played by Eric Leimtz, fires rifle and pistol in a reenactment.
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- Violinist Bill Alexander, of the Sacramento Ballroom Society, plays as participants dance the Virginia Reel.
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- Violinist Bill Alexander, of the Sacramento Ballroom Society, plays as participants dance the Virginia Reel.
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- Violinist Bill Alexander, of the Sacramento Ballroom Society, plays as participants dance the Virginia Reel.
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- Cowboys Harry Bruce, Nick Batteate, and Gary Bruce roams the streets of old Sacramento.
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- Wagons and dust fill the streets of Old Sacramento just as if it was the 1850s.
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- California’s first passenger railroad, The Sacramento Valley Railroad, started in 1855 and ran from Sacramento to Folsom.
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- “Wild Bill Hickock,” played by Eric Leimtz, and “Wyatt Earp,” played by Fred Pedersen, face their enemy in a reenactment.
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- A horse rests in the shade as another enjoys the company of Alena Goodrich, 12.
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- Heidi Agler, mounted on Red, mingles with Cinder.
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- Christiana Chavez experiences history in the Old Sacramento one-room schoolhouse.
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- Monica Lenk and Kathy Lowy stroll Old Sacramento in 1850s costumes.
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- Monica Lenk and Kathy Lowy stroll Old Sacramento in 1850s costumes.
Sacramento’s annual “Gold Rush Days,” held over the Labor Day weekend, experienced greater crowds due to the cooler weather – and no competition from the California State Fair, which was held earlier this summer.
