The Pony Express Stations of Utah in Historical Perspective

1. Gerald F. Harrington, Map of the Pony Express Trail (Oakland: Ca. 1935 — Photostatic copy on file BLM USO, Salt Lake City).

2. Kate B. Carter, Utah and the Pony Express, Centennial Edition (Salt Lake City: Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, 1960), p.3-11.

3. David Nevin, The Expressmen, Old West Series (New York: Time-Life Books, 1976), p. 100,110.

4. Alexander Majors, Seventy Years on the Frontier (New York: Rand McNalley & Co., 1893), p. 184.

5. Carter, Utah and the Pony Express, p. 35.

6. Ibid., p. 72.

7. Ibid., p. 34.

8. Guy E. Stringham, "The Pioneer Roadometer," Utah Historical Quarterly, 42 (1974): 265.

9. Howard R. Egan, Pioneering the West (Salt Lake City: Shelton Publishing Co., 1901), p. 197.

10. Raymond W. Settle and Mary Lund Settle, Saddles and Spurs (Lincoln, Nebr.: University of Nebraska Press, 1972), p. 63.

11. Ibid., p. 59.

12. Albert Tracy, "The Utah War - Journal of Capt. Albert Tracy, 1858-1860," Utah Historical Quarterly, 13 (1945): 92

13. Carter, Utah and the Pony Express, p. 67.

14. Richard E. Fike, "Those Historic Trails," Our Public Lands Vol. No. 24, No. 4 (Fall, 1974): p. 8.

15. Stephen Carr, The Historical Guide to Utah Ghost Towns (Salt Lake City: Western Epics, 1972), p. 58.

16. Tracy, "The Utah War", 1858-1860, p. 92.

17. W. R. Honnel, Map of the Pony Express Trail (Kansas City, 1935).

18. Gerald F. Harrington, Map of the Pony Express Trail (Oakland, 1935).

19. Carter, Utah and the Pony Express, p. 29.

20. Carr, The Historical Guide to Utah Ghost Towns, p. 57.

21. Carter, Utah and the Pony Express, p. 29.

22. Tracy, "The Utah War", 1858-1860, p. 25.

23. J. H. Simpson, Map of Wagon Routes in Utah Territory 1858-1860, (New York: The Graphic Co. 1859).

24. Tracy, "The Utah War", 1858-1860 p. 87.

25. Carter, Utah and the Pony Express, p. 61.

26. "Tales of a Triumphant People," A History of Salt Lake County.

27. Carter, Utah and the Pony Express, p. 28.

28. Harold P. Fabian at Fairfield, June 21, 1959. Dedication of monument in remembrance of Rocky Mountain Lodge No. 205, the first Masonic Lodge in Utah (Utah State Parks brochure).

29. J. H. Simpson, Captain, Report of Exploration across the Great Basin of the Territory of Utah in 1859 (Washington D. C.: U.S. Government Printing Office:1876).

30. Cosi Castagno, Interview, 24 July, 1974.

31. Carter, Utah and the Pony Express, p. 30.

32. Ibid., p. 31.

33. John F. Bluth, "The South Central Overland Trail in Western Utah, 1850-1900" (U. S. Bureau of Land Management), p. 25.

34. Pony Express File, Salt Lake City Public Library Newspapers (Special Collections) .

35. Lavon E. Menlove, Interview, 10 March, 1977.

36. Bluth "The South Central Overland Trail in Western Utah, 1850-1900", p. 26.

37. Cosi Castagno, Interview, 24 July, 1974.

38. Egan, Pioneering the West p. 218.

39. John F. Bluth, "Supplementary Report on Pony Express-Overland Stage Sites in Western Utah" (U.S. Bureau of Land Management), p. 11.

40. Ibid., p. 13.

41. Richard Burton, The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California (New York, 1963), p. 513.

42. Bluth, "Supplementary Report on Pony Express-Overland Stage Sites," p. 13.

43. Ibid., p. 14.

44 DeVerl Nichols, interview, 24 March, 1974.

45. Simpson, "Map of Wagon Routes in Utah Territory 1858-1860".

46. Bluth, "Supplementary Report on Pony Express-Overland Stage Sites," p. 16.

47. James P. Sharp, "The Pony Express 1860-1861, Pony Express Stations in Utah", self printed, 1966 p. 38.

48. Bluth, "Supplementary Report on Pony Express-Overland Stage Sites, p. 19.

49. Carter, Utah and the Pony Express, p. 79.

50. Bluth, "Supplementary Report on Pony Express-Overland Stage Sites," p. 24.

51. DeVerl Nichols, interview, 24 March, 1974.

52. Bluth, "Supplementary Report on Pony Express-Overland Stage Sites," p. 24.

53. Egan, Pioneering the West, p. 263.

54. Bluth, "Supplementary Report on Pony Express-Overland Stage Sites," p. 26.

55. Delbert Lee, interview, March 1974.