Frontierland Trivia

• The pond along Big Thunder Trail still contains jumping fish left there from the Old Mine Train Attraction.
• The steam engine on display in the queue of “Big Thunder Mountain Railroad” was used in the movie “Hot Lead & Cold Feet.”
• In the early years of the Park, the Rivers of America was stocked with catfish and fishing was allowed off the docks of “Tom Sawyer Island”.
• The maiden voyage of the “Mark Twain” was made before opening day, during Walt’s wedding anniversary celebration.
• The “Columbia Sailing Ship” was the first three-masted windjammer built in the United States in over one hundred years.
• The water tower adjacent to the Frontierland Train Station is an actual, functioning water tower used for Disneyland’s authentic steam trains.
• The first two keelboats at Disneyland, the Gullywhumper and the Bertha Mae, were the original boats used in the Disney film, “Davy Crockett and the River Pirates.”

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