Cheyenne-Deadwood Trail

The board's forerunner of Lusk moved in a week. Silver Cliff grew up as a tent camp beside a silver and copper mine worked from 1880, near the old Running Water station. When the railroad arrived on July 13, 1886, a silver spike from the local mines was driven with a copper hammer, and the camp packed up for the new townsite about a mile east, on land Frank Lusk provided. A visiting correspondent watched it go: on Wednesday a tent or two, on Thursday the moving, and by Saturday nearly all of it in Lusk.

What the plaque says

Cheyenne-Deadwood Trail Here you stand on the Cheyenne-Deadwood Trail over which freight wagons and stagecoaches traveled between Cheyenne and the Black Hills gold mining area from 1876 to 1887. One of these coaches may be seen in the Lusk museum. The nearby monument is at the grave of George Lathrop, pioneer stagedriver. South you can see Rawhide Buttes, west of which was located the home station of the Cheyenne and Black Hills stage lines. One and a half miles northeast was running water or Silver Cliff stage station, fore runner of Lusk. Last straggler of the great Buffalo herds in this area was killed nearby in recent years.

Where it stands

More markers nearby

• Lusk Rest Area — steps away
• The C & H Refinery — 1.3 mi
• Texas Trail — 4.8 mi
• Rawhide Buttes — 9.9 mi