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Photographer: Cosmos Mariner
Taken: July 4, 2021
Caption: Rock Creek Station Pony Express Marker
Additional Description: (Marker has been removed from original location and placed inside the Rock Creek Station State Park Museum for safekeeping.)

Near here were the Rock Creek Crossing and Rock Creek Station where on July 12, 1861, Wild Bill Hickok shot and killed David McCanles and started a legend. This was an important area on the Oregon Trail and Pony Express.

National Pony Express Centennial Association
Dwight D. Eisenhower – Chairman
Waddell F. Smith – President
Marvin F. Kivett – Vice President, Nebraska
Submitted: July 15, 2021, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p597729
File Size: 2.193 Megabytes

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