Sunday, June 13, 2010

Pony Express Monument at Simpson Springs

Pony Express Monument at Simpson Springs
Pony Express Monument
    
     This monument shows the dates of the first and last couriers to visit Simpson Springs: "One of the important desert stations on the Pony Express and Overland Stage route...The first east-bound Pony Express Courier halted here about 5 P.M. April7, and west-bound about 2 A.M. April 10, 1860. The last riders passed about October 22, 1861..."

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