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…
Pony Express Temporarily Suspended
"On May 7, a band of Paiute Indians attacked a Pony Express station in the Carson Valley west of Salt Lake City, killing seven men and burning down the station…