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Big Thunder Mountain Railroad is an attraction located in [[Frontierland]]

==Attraction History==

The history of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad actually begins with the story of the Western River Expedition. In the late 1960s Imagineer Marc Davis was tasked with creating a Frontierland alternative to Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean attraction <ref name="hill1">http://jimhillmedia.com/editor_in_chief1/b/jim_hill/archive/2000/12/31/why-quot-western-river-quot-went-south-part-3.aspx </ref>. Although the ride had proved to be extremely popular, Disney felt that guests in Florida would not be interested in the attraction due to the preponderance of pirates in Florida's cultural lore <ref name="dated"> http://www.omniluxe.net/wyw/wre.htm </ref>. Instead of pirates, Davis and his team pitched the Western River Expedition. This massive Frontierland expansion would have featured a boat ride similar to Pirates of the Caribbean, which would have taken guests through various scenes in the American Old West. Also included in the expansion, would be hiking trails, a mule ride, and finally an attraction aboard a runaway train which was pitched to give the project a thrill component<ref> http://passport2dreams.blogspot.com/2015/01/all-about-western-river-expedition-part.html </ref>. When pitching his project Davis suggested: