Hat Creek Ranch

                                                                        Gold panning.

              A stage coach ride. The children adored this family day trip as they all are Little house on the Prairie fanatics.  We have visited the Ranch many times before but we have never done a guided tour, that was a great way to learn different tid bits we didn't know.

 Hat Creek Ranch is a historical park that happens to be apart of our family's history. This house the children are sitting outside of is the home of their Gr. X 3 Grandmother Sophia. Her children  are famous for being some of the most dangerous outlaws of the gold rush. Brothers Allan, Charles and Archie McLean: The McLean Gang terrorized Kamloops, B.C., in the late 1870s, stealing everything from horses and liquor to ammunition. When the law came after them, the McLeans shot their way through, eventually killing two men, including a police constable. Eventually caught and convicted—the jury took 20 minutes to reach a verdict—they were hanged together in New Westminster in 1881.