Overland Stage Route (Point of Rocks)

The robbery most often told of this road's Point of Rocks station is pinned on Jack Slade, the stage line's onetime division agent, with seven passengers killed. The record does not bear it out. The line fired Slade for drunkenness in November 1862, after a spree at Fort Halleck, and vigilantes hanged him at Virginia City, Montana, on March 10, 1864; another telling moves the robbery to 1877, its dead said to lie in the cemetery nearby. The station itself, sandstone under a sod roof, survived an attempt to burn it.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Boar's Tusk and the Killpecker Dunes — 29 mi
  The throat of a vanished volcano made of rock from the mantle, standing over a fifty-five-mile river of dunes that crosses the Continental Divide.

More markers nearby

• Almond Overland Stage Station — steps away
• Rough Travels — 0.5 mi
• The Reliance Tipple — 21 mi
• Tri-Territory Historic Site — 23 mi