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These Recall the Days of the Pony Express, News Photo, c. 1938Entry/Object ID
AM1972.14.1QScope and Content
These Recall the Days of the Pony Express, News Photo, c. 1938. St. Joseph News-Press. Two news photos, one of stables at a Pony Express relay station at Fort Bridger, the other of the grave of Bill Hickock and Calamity Jane. Related to a talk given in St. Joseph by W.R. Honnell.
Caption for stable photo: "This stable which till stands at Fort Bridger, Wyo., was used at the Pony Express relay station there in 1860. The picture was taken by W. R. Honnell of Kansas City, Kan., who talked on Pony Express history before the St. Joseph Kiwanis Club Thursday noon.:
Caption for grave photo: "Mr. Honnell is here shown standing between the graves of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamaity Jane, near whose monument flies and American flag. These graves at Deadwood S.C., contain the mortal remains of two of the figures interwoven inot the colorful and exciting history of the Pony Express and the early West. Calamity Jane once lived in Princeton, Mo."Lexicon
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