Horse Creek (Greasewood)

Location: On County Road 319 (Oregon Trail Road) ten miles southwest of the summit of Prospect/Ryan Hill; near the junction of Horse Creek and fish Creek about three miles northeast of Highway 220.

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History: To emigrants on the Trails System, this small stream was known as both Sage Creek and Greasewood Creek. When a Pony Express stop was established here in 1860, it became known as Horse Creek. It was also the location of a stage stop. Brigham Young's company was camped about 1.5 miles downstream when party members Wilford Woodruff and John Brown disappeared. It was later learned that the missing pair stumbled upon a group of pioneers from Missouri and accepted an invitation to spend the night at that camp. Wilford Woodruff subsequently wrote about this experience.

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Stop 1 Oregon Trail Burial - Quintina Snoderly · Stop 2 Edness Kimball Wilkins State Park · Stop 3 Richard's (Reshaw's) Bridge and Trading Post · Stop 4 Mormon Ferry, Probable Second Site · Stop 5 Mormon Ferry, Probable First Site · Stop 6 Fort Caspar · Stop 7 Battle of Red Buttes · Stop 8 Bessemer Bend/Red Buttes Crossing · Stop 9 Emigrant Gap · Stop 10 Avenue of Rocks/Devil's Backbone/Clayton's Slough · Stop 11 Willow Springs · Stop 12 Prospect Hill/Ryan Hill · Stop 13 Horse Creek (Greasewood) · Stop 14 Saleratus (Playa) Lake/Sweetwater Pony Express Station · Stop 15 Independence Rock · Stop 16 Devil's Gate · Stop 17 Martin's Cove · Stop 18 Split Rock

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