To the Brave Men Who Rode the Pony Express (Big Sandy Station)

The stones here do not agree on when the Pony Express ended. The 2002 station marker runs it to November 20, 1861, and the Big Sandy River panel across the pullout counts nineteen and a half months. Its official end came on October 26, 1861, two days after the transcontinental telegraph was joined at Salt Lake City, though letters already on the road were still arriving in November. The station itself stood 184 feet north and 203 feet west of the 2002 stone, by its own measure; the medallion stone records the ground as Andrew Arnott's gift.

What the plaque says

Dedicated July 4, 2002 Big Sandy original station Apr. 3, 1860 - Nov. 20, 1861 located 184' north and 203' west "East Meets West" Dedicated July 4, 2003 To the brave men who rode the Pony Express 1860 - 1861 The site of Big Sandy Station gift of Andrew Arnott to the State of Wyoming

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Boar's Tusk and the Killpecker Dunes — 16 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

• The Big Sandy River — 0.2 mi
• Simpson's Hollow — 9.6 mi
• Simpson's Hollow (Utah War panel) — 9.6 mi
• Parting of the Ways — 23 mi