[English] Rapid Changes After two decades of trail use, changes arrived in the 1860s. The Pony Express with its riders delivered mail to and from California. They rode through local stations near Chimney Rock and . . . — — Map (db m311088) HM
In 1909 Nebraska State Surveyor Robert Harvey surveyed the Fort Mitchell site documenting the location of the fort for the Nebraska State Historical Society. Mr. Harvey’s site sketch is partially shown to the right.
The granite Oregon Trail . . . — — Map (db m79436) HM
Mitchell Pass and the city of Mitchell, Nebraska, derive their names from a military post built near here during the Indian Wars. No trace of the sod structure remains at the site on the North Platte River bend northwest of Scott’s Bluff. It was . . . — — Map (db m79426) HM
