Name/Title
Cold Springs Pony Express Station Ruins, Nebraska, Photos, undatedEntry/Object ID
P1995.1P.841Description
Cold Springs Pony Express Station Ruins, Nebraska, Photos, undated. Copy of photo from book,. Stone walls with entrance door visible in hilly, dry landscape. Photos from "Pony Express--The Great Gamble" by Bloss. b/w
Legend: "Cold Spring Station ruins. In Oct. of 1860, Sir Richard Burton, traveling west by stage, wrote in his diary: "A wretched place, half built and wholly unroofed". The station had before been burned by Indians and a keeper killed. Burton, as at some other stations along the line, was obliged to sleep in a haystack again. This photograph from -- Pony Express, the Great Gamble -- by Bloss."
old digital file name: NE-ColdSpgsStation5.Lexicon
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Pony Express Station, Cold Springs Pony Express StationDimensions
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Photos taken from "Pony Express--The Great Gamble" by Bloss