Copyright: 75.2.53 Simpson's Park, NV, near XP station site, 1964
Name/Title
Simpson Park Pony Express Station Site, Nevada, Photos, 1964
Entry/Object ID
P1975.2.53
Description
Simpson Park Pony Express Station Site, Nevada, Photos, 1964. Two photos of large meadow surrounded by mountains that was the site of Simpson's Park Pony Express Station. b/w.
75.2.53 = Broad meadow lined with sagebrush on left foreground, with low mountains in background. Legend: "Simpson's Park at top of Simpson's Canyon. View is to the southeastward towards the canyon. Pioneer graves, once marked, are in sagebrush in the foreground." Nev. 1964
75.2.54 = Two man and 1 woman standing in tall grass in meadow with mountains in background. Legend: "The lush growth of grass in Simpson's Park now as in Overland Trail days provides hay. Burton wrote that he slept in a haystack when here on this trip westward in 1860. (Read City of the Saints by Sir Richard Burton)." Nev. 1964
old digital file name: NVSimpsonSta & NVSimpsonSta2.
