Desert Station | We Visited: 9/13/2001 | ||
39° 15' 45"N, 119° 03' 21"W - HOOTEN WELL quad |
Directions: Take U.S. 50 to Silver Springs, proceed south for 9.9 miles; turn east on the Simpson Road; 8.3 miles to local dirt road; take right and proceed 3.4 miles From Fallon: 21.6 miles |
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What Was From the National Park Service: L.C. Bishop and Paul Henderson, as well as the mail contract of 1861, list Desert as a station between Carson Sink and Fort Churchill. This obscure station probably housed telegraph activities and possibly served as a Pony Express station during the last few months of its existence. A good source of water later made the station a popular stopping point for travelers, miners, and teamsters in the 1860s. Desert Station probably served as both a Pony Express station and an Overland Mail station.
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What is A faded trail, crumbling foundations, just another abandoned station slowing sinking into the ground. |
The ravages of time etc. etc. etc. Looking east with
the pony express trail right in the middle
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The
desert is slowly reclaiming this station
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The
larger of the two building remains, this one was probably for horses,
hay, etc.
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