Morgan Peterson is now a board member of the Carriage Museum. He is in charge of our it functions and is currently working on our You Tube Channel. Morgan is director of IT at Compu Vison located in Santa Barbara. Morgan has been with the company for 20 years. He is also the son of […]
This is a very early and rare saddle made in the 1850s by Chas H. Mead out of San Francisco. Chas was born in New York City in 1814 and moved to California in the 1850s. He set up his saddle shop on the corner of Front and Jackson St. in San Francisco and remained […]
The Frederic Remington bronze statue, “Off the Range (Coming Through the Rye)”, was donated to the museum by Union Bank through our board member Angela Miller-Bevan. This large bronze statue was created by Remington in 1902 and cast in 1903. This was the largest and most complex bronze statue he ever made. This statue is […]
Dylan Peterson is now President of the museum. He graduated from Santa Barbara High School in 1995 and received a Bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from UCSB in 2004. Shortly thereafter he acquired his Master’s degree in biochemistry. He has published multiple research papers on Alzheimer’s disease but he is currently the Academic Coordinator for the […]
About the Book “Joe De Yong: A Life in the West” is the story of a passionate cowboy’s life in the America West during the first part of the last century. Over ten years of research has revealed the life of a relatively unknown artist/illustrator who started out to be “just a cowboy.” Turns out, […]
The Carriage Museum has completed restoration of the Tecolote 15 passenger mountain wagon and it will be in up coming Old Spanish Days Fiesta Parade.. Also known as a Yellowstone Coach, it has open sides for sightseeing. The coach was used in national parks to carry visitors and hotel guests on leisurely tours through the […]