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Paiute War

An Indian for Breakfast

"'An Indian for breakfast and a pony to ride' was their [105 men who volunteered under Major Ormsby after the killings at William's Station] slogan as the command started across…

Pony’s Bob’s Account of His Ride

"Pony Bob” Haslam’s Account of the May 18 Express and Indian Attacks The following account was provided by Robert “Pony Bob” Haslam in Seventy Years on the Frontier, the memoirs…

Pony Bob Halsam’s Ride

"The first Pony Express rider going east after the attack upon Williams Station was "Pony Bob" Haslam, who set out for [from?] Friday's Station on May 9. If he was not aware…

Desert Springs

"While all is green and fresh on the summits of the mountains, in the surrounding deserts all is salt, alkali, sterility, and desolation. In the early days, when thousands on…

Meaning of “Pah-Ute”

"The Piutes belonged to the Ute band at the time that the original Shoshone tribe broke up through its own weight and unwieldy size. They settled about the lakes—Humboldt, Pyramid,…

Mile 1835: Dry Creek

"[W]hen Streeper was ready to return, two prospectors traveling toward Salt Lake City, asked him if they could accompany him, to which he replied that they could if they were not afraid of…

Mile 1850: Simpson Park Station

"At Simpson's Park [on May 20, 1860], James Alcott was killed, the station burned, and the stock driven off during the Pah Ute War. Two Indians were employed here to…

Mile 1678: Egan’s Station

"The rider carrying the August 1 westbound mail just missed an Indian attack on Egan Canyon station, which turned into a fierce battle between the Indians and the U.S. mounted cavalry commanded…

Mile 1678: Egan’s Station

"In the early part of October [1860] a war party of eighty Pah Utes descended upon Egan's station while Mike Holt station keeper, and a rider by the name of Wilson were…

Mile 1502: Willow Springs Station

"Early in June [1860] Elijah N. Wilson set out from Schell Creek to make his regular run to Deep Creek [Ibapah]. When he reached his destination he found that the rider…

Mile 1573: Spring Valley Station

"The keeper of . . . Spring Valley was Constant Dubail, a Frenchman. It was here that Elijah N. Wilson was wounded in the head by an arrow. . .…

Mile 1514: Round Station

"Six miles from Willow Creek and twelve miles from Willow Springs Station. "Canyon Station was strategically built in 1863 high above the mouth of Overland Canyon to replace an earlier,…

Mile 1508: Willow Creek Station

"The authors do not necessarily support the idea that a station was located here but the following evidence, from excerpts of Nick Wilson's story in 'Utah and the Pony Express'…

Stations Attacked During the Paiute War

"A San Francisco dispatch of June 4, in New York Daily Tribune, June 26, 1860, reported the stations abandoned beyond Sand Springs toward Salt Lake. The station at Simpson Park was burned,…

Cause of the Paiute War

"The latter author points out that the real cause of this attack [The May 7 attack by Paiute Indians on the station of J. O. Williams, in which seven men were killed…

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Scott AlumbaughIn early March 2020, I decided to bikepack the length of the Pony Express Trail in Summer 2021, following the Pony Express Bikepacking Route, a nearly all off-road route created by Jan Bennett. You can learn more here >

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