In 1958, Dr. Evan and Lois Kackley donated the Yellowstone Coach to the City of Soda Springs. According to Dr. Kackley's written letters to the city council, this particular coach was used to carry President Theodore Roosevelt and the naturalists John Muir and John Burroughs on a well-publicized park tour in 1903, when the presidential entourage traveled with a U.S. Army cavalry escort stationed in the Yellowstone area. Stagecoach construction began to form around 1824, and the Abbott-Downing Company of Concord, New Hampshire, manufactured forty types of carriages but is remembered primarily for its western coaches, including the Tally-Ho. Stagecoaches served as public transportation until the early 1900s, with wide variation based on intended use. Concord coaches, mud wagons, and the Tally-Ho shared a leather undercarriage but differed in size, weight, and construction. Yellowstone National Park was established in 1872, and the Yellowstone Tally-Ho was one of the early coaches used in the park. It was swung on leather like the Concord coach, but it was open-sided with leather seats facing forward, had black fringe around the top, and lacked a rear baggage compartment. Four horses pulled park coaches over short distances, while tour luggage was carried by light open wagons or buckboards. Unlike the Tally-Ho, the heavier Concord required six horses, had an enclosed baggage boot, and could travel ten to fifteen miles between stops. Eastern visitors reached the park mainly by Union Pacific Railroad to Corinne, Utah, then by stagecoach north to Bozeman or Virginia City, Montana; Wells Fargo and Company operated daily stages for 438 miles to Virginia City. A less popular route followed the Missouri River to Fort Benton. These routes grew shorter as the railroad expanded north to Eagle Rock, now Idaho Falls, and over Monida Pass to the Red Rock Station. Park coaches then shuttled passengers from overland stage stops to the Mammoth Hotel at Yellowstone's north entrance. By 1909, the Yellowstone National Park Transportation Company, with yellow coaches, was one of three major transportation companies operating in the park. Regular tours lasted five days and cost $40.00, including meals and room, and travelers could stop at principal points to join surrey or wagon parties for an additional fee. The era of park coaches lasted 36 years and ended with the 1916 season, after which the coaches were stored and later sold to private individuals. In the summer of 2004, the City of Soda Springs Council hired Dar Weaver to restore the coach. That fall, the Soda Springs Bingo Committee provided funds and hired Lott Builders to construct an enclosed shelter in the city park to display it, with Yellowstone Park scenes painted on the north wall by Neva Harrison and the Tally-Ho Coach House and history signage made by Daphne Allen of Rock Mountain Signworks.