Pony Express Station and Sand Hills
Salt Springs
Sir Richard Burton, British scholar and explorer, visited the Sand Springs Station on October 17, 1860, and described it in his diary this way: The water near this vile hole was thick and stale with sulphury salts: it blistered even the hands. The station house was no unfit object in such a scene, roofless and chairless, filthy and squalid, with a smoky fire in one corner, and a table in the centre of an impure floor, the walls open to every wind and the interior full of dust.