High River and its surrounding area has a rich, western history, and this Saturday, people will get a chance to learn about that history first hand.

Museum of the Highwood director and curator, Irene Kerr, says they're putting on a cemetery tour where you'll get the chance to learn about the town's ranching and rodeo legends.

"So that will be people who were quite notorious for the part they played in early ranching and rodeo in Alberta," she says. "We have a wonderful list of people and stories about all these people, so we're really looking forward to it."

Participants are asked to meet at the south cemetery gates at 11 a.m. on Aug. 22 and admission is by donation.

"After the cemetery tour, we invite people to come back to the museum and have a few refreshments, and Lenore McLean will be there to tell us some stories about her (former) neighbours, the Weadicks, who of course are on the tour--their headstones are in the cemetery."

Kerr says they'll also be serving up some donuts for snacks, which come from the original recipe of Charlie Lehr, who was a cook at the Bar U Ranch in the 1800s and will also be on the cemetery tour.