Dugway Pony Express Station Site Utah, 1961

Photograph

St. Joseph Museums

Dugway Pony Express Station Site, 1961

Name/Title

Dugway Pony Express Station Site Utah, 1961

Entry/Object ID

P1975.2.17

Description

Dugway Pony Express Station Site Utah, June, 1961. Two photos of the desert area where the Dugway Station was located and its marker. b/w 75.2.17 = Ruins of shelter at Dugway Station, a rubble of scattered rock in the desert setting, photo center. Legend: "Dugway Station, one hundred years after the Pony Express, was only a pile of rocks and a hole in the ground. View to westward. The Pony Express trail crossed the Dugway Range at low point marked by arrow on its way to Black Rock Station." 7.2.18 = Depression at Dugway Site. Maude Reynolds standing inside a depression, her hand touching a large rock. Legend: "Richard Burton in his 1860 description of the Dugway Pony Express station called it "A hole four feet deep, roofed over with split cedar trunks and with a rough adobe chimney." Utah, 6/61" old digital file name: UTDugwayStation-UTDugwayStation2

Made/Created

Artist

Reynolds, Don

Date made

1961

Place

State/Province

Utah

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Pony express

Search Terms

Pony Express Station, Dugway Pony Express Station

Dimensions

Dimension Notes

Printsize: 7¼" X 9¼"

Condition

Overall Condition

Good

Provenance

Notes

Photo taken by SJM staff photographer