2022-11 Raynors HCA Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/19/2022
Real Photo Post Card, "Old Stage Station, Rongis Wyo." shows five men in front of several connected mud-log buildings. The image is of the Point of Rocks Station which was built in 1861 or 1862 by Ben Holladay when Indian depredations completed interdicted stage traffic on the Oregon Trail and forced traffic further south. The move did not completely stop the problem and the station was burned by the Indians at least once. In 1863, Overland ex-superintendent Jack Slade held up the stage near here, killing 7 passengers, resulting in the start of the cemetery (Drawing below right, C.M. Russell, Holdup of the Overland Stage). The Railroad reached Point of Rocks in 1868, but for many years the town remained an important junction point for stages and freighters going to South Pass. In 1870, a stage left twice daily for South Pass City, a jolting 15 hour ride. With the decline of South Pass City and the mines, stage service was discontinued in 1877, and the station became a private residence and a school. The last resident of the station was Jim McKee who reputedly was a member of the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang.
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