Cold Springs Nevada - Part 2 "Overland Stage Station"
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Cold Springs Nevada - Part 2 "Overland Stage Station"

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The Butterfield Overland stations were approved by congress in 1857. The route was altered from its southerly route to a more centralized one during the Civil War that begin in Missouri all the way to the west Californian coast. This station was built in 1861 they were designed to aid travelers in their journeys such as watering down the horses, repairing stage coaches, providing them with a meal, shelter and thus numerous stage stops like the ruins of this one you see became abundant. During the 1860's stagecoach travel became very popular as mail, freight, valuables, pets and goods were hauled on the Overland route. Travel was tedious with dust storms, extreme heat, cold, snow, rain, outlaws and hostile Indian tribes. Stations provided some level of safety for these pioneers who may have made this 23 day trek. While the stations tenants lived a life that lacked luxury they had to have goods imported or hunt for their food. More then off such stations became the victim of Indian raids therefore the tenants had to have gun, slept on a dirt floor, spent many cold nights exposed to the elements and tended to their own basic survival. This massive station may have been a headquarters for the Overland Route as it had a guest room, two bedrooms, living area, two corrals, stables, barn, storage area, blacksmith, three fireplaces, gun ports for protection and kitchen. The employees who lived here did so for months at a time and ate here. Leaving the station meant being killed by the natives, wilderness or even a pack of wolves. Eventually Wells, Fargo & Company took over this route. However when the Transcontinental Railroad came to be this ended the need for the Overland Route or its stations in 1869 when this station was abandoned.

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