With Sara Smith's letter, I'd like to add a very belated Thank You to the  Lane County Sheriff's Mounted Posse for some wonderful  work they did 20 years ago.  Yes, back in 1996 they  guided the  horses and wagons of the 1846 Applegate Trail Sesquicentennial re-enactment all the way from the Douglas County  line, through the traffic in Eugene and finally north to the Benton County line, following that original route of 150 years earlier.  As Chair of the Lane County Applegate Trail Committee I know the wagons'  safe  passage through Lane County would not have been possible without these great volunteers and their horses.