Round Canyon Pony Express Station

This was the dangerous end of the line. Out in the far west desert, where stations sat a hard ride apart and water was scarce, the loneliness could turn lethal. In the summer of 1863 the post in this canyon was attacked and burned, its agent and four soldiers killed. What replaced it was less a station than a fort — a round wall of stone with rifle ports, likely roofless so defenders could fire over the top. The Pony Express had already ended; the danger it ran through had not. Foundations are all that remain.

Where it stands

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