Split Rock area Trail Ruts, Sweetwater Valley 1961
Copyright: 74.9.31 Split Rock area Trail Ruts, Sweetwater Valley 1961
Name/Title
Split Rock Pony Express Station Site Photos, 1961
Entry/Object ID
P1974.9.31
Description
Split Rock Pony Express Station Site Photos, 1961. Three photos of the area in the Sweetwater Valley where this station was situated. b/w
74.9.31 = Trail ruts traversing across sagebrush toward Spit Rock. Legend: "View across Sweetwater River shows Spit Rock from Highway 287 historical marker. Wyo. 1961"
79.9.32 = Split Rock historical marker. Maude Reynolds reading. Stone marker in fenced area with Split Rock visible on horizon. Inscribed "Split Rock. A famous natural landmark used by Indians, trappers, and emigrants on the Oregon Trail. Site of Split Rock Pony Express 1860-186, Stage and Telegraph station is on the south side of the Sweetwater. Split Rock can be seen as a cleft in the top of Rattlesnake Range." Legend: "View westward along the Oregon-Mormon-Pony Express Trails up the Sweetwater Valley. The next Pony Express station was Split Rock named from the cleft in the mountain at right. Wyo. 1961)
74.9.33 = Landscape expanse of sagebrush with mountains in background. Legend "View eastward down the Sweetwater Valley shows site of the Split Rock Station at base of Split Rock (left). Wyo. 1961."
old digital file name:.WYSplitRockStation-WYSplitRockStation3.
Made/Created
Artist
Reynolds, Don
Date made
1961
Place
State/Province
Wyoming
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, Split Rock Pony Express Station, Split Rock, Oregon Trail
