In the fall of 1893, there were multiple advertisements all over the Ridgeway Journal for the “harvest excursions”. Three different railroads offered special rates for round trip tickets for travelers to take trips to western states to see the landscape. Travelers then had 20 days to use the return trip ticket once they got to their destination. These excursion trips were only scheduled for certain days (August 22, September 12 and October 10) of that year and people could travel to any point west of the Missouri River to see the “100-bushels-to-the-acre cornfields of Nebraska and Kansas; the rich wheat lands of eastern Colorado or the wonderfully irrigated districts of northern Wyoming.” Many Ridgeway residents used the cheap fares to go to visit family and friends in the west. (Ridgeway Journal, October 5, 1893)
