Mile 1464: Black Rock Station
[Not: The site is between Mile 1463 and 1464] "Also known as Butte, or Desert Station, it was named for the black basalt outcropping just to the north of the…
[Not: The site is between Mile 1463 and 1464] "Also known as Butte, or Desert Station, it was named for the black basalt outcropping just to the north of the…
The first Pony Express station in Tooele County, UT, is located in Rush Valley while heading west from Utah County toward Faust on Faust Road, which is also the original…
At Mile 1480 (west side of Fish Springs, UT), the XP Bikepacking continues north on the Pony Express-Overland Stage Trail to go around the north end of the Fish Springs…
"A great deal of controversy has arisen over the location of the Willow Springs Station. Descriptions given by Nick Wilson (an Express rider) and Sir Richard Burton do not describe…
"Fourteen miles from Fish Springs Station, via a road around the north end of the Fish Springs Range and nine miles over the pass to the west of the station. Although…
"J.H. Simpson placed two mail stations in this area: the one at Fish Springs first used by Chorpenning and another about three and one-quarter miles north at Warm Springs. The…
"The authors have not located the site of Blackrock Station. Reconnaisance and infrared photographs have also failed to produce any evidence. Only a vandalized monument marks its general location. Initially…
"Rockwell's Station was named after the operator Orin Porter Rockwell. Rockwell earlier served as Brigham Young's bodyguard (1830's) and was a Danite (member of the Mormon protection group, organized in…
"Water for Dugway Station had to be hauled from Simpson's Springs. Although three wells were dug over several years, one reaching a depth of 120 feet, no water was found.…
"Burial plot. Enclosing graves (west side) of two men and a child emigrants of the early eighteen sixties. "Original wall erected in 1888, By Mrs. Horace (Aunt Libby) Rockwell to shelter…
"The station was built in an old riverbed formed by evaporation of Lake Bonneville. The water contained in the northern portion of the great inland sea had a greater surface…
"Simpson Springs became one of the most prominent stations in the West Desert due to the availability of excellent water. Chorpenning, living in a Sibley tent first developed the area…
"There is some doubt as to whether the structures at this location were used by the Pony Express. There is record of the army digging a well here for an…
"Originally, Lookout Pass was identified by Simpson as General Johnston's Pass. The mail contract called it Point Lookout. From the top of the pass one can look west into the…
"Although identified in the 1861 mail contract as Bush Valley, it is apparently a typographical error or was copied as a result of a misinterpreted hand-written contract. This station was…