Submitted by scott on Mon, 07/15/2013 - 16:42

Willow Creek/Six-Mile Station (N39 57 37.0 W113 45 20.0) (NM) (P)

Location: SE1/4NE1/4 Section 16, Township 10 South, Range 17 West, Salt Lake Meridian, 6 miles from Willow Springs Station.

The 1875 cadastral survey plat, locates a cabin, springs, and connecting roads at a location along Six-Mile Creek. This, coupled with historic written accounts and knowledge that Pete Joyce built and occupied a log cabin at this location, suggests its use as a station house. It is on private land next to the road but nothing remains and no monument as well.  http://www.expeditionutah.com/featured-trails/pony-express-trail/utah-pony-express-stations/

WILLOW CREEK STATION*

Fike and Headley locate this controversial station six miles from Willow Springs. They and the Settles are the only sources to list Willow Creek as a Pony Express stop.  If it was a stop, then Pete Joyce's cabin on Six-Mile Creek possibly served as the station.  Little more is known about the station.  http://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/poex/hrs/hrs7a.htm#121

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Marker Category
Pony Express
Geolocation

39.960395812988, -113.75548553467

Geofield
Roughing It

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