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Simpson Springs Station, Utah
No rider could risk running out of water while crossing Utah's desert. Because Simpson Springs was a reliable watering spot, Pony Express officials arranged to use an already standing building as a station house. (The building in the photo sites near the location of the original station house.) It was named for Capt. James H. Simpson, who surveyed routes from the Great Sale Lake Desert to western Nevada in 1859. |