Mud Springs Station

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Mud Springs Station in present-day Lassen County is about 13 miles from Shaffer Station in the Honey Lake Valley.[1] The station burned in April, 1862.

Mud Flat is 9 miles east of Shaffer Station in the Honey Lake Valley.[2]

Note that there is a different Mud Springs Station (El Dorado, Nevada House/Mud Springs Station) on the Pony Express trail.

An 1857 map shows Mud Springs.[3]

References

  1. "Trailing Sheep from California to Idaho in 1865: The Journal of Gorham Gates Kimball,", Edward N. Wentworth, Agricultural History, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Apr., 1954), pp. 49-83.
  2. "Indian attack in Honey Lake Valley," The Marysville Appeal, November 8 1862, p. 3.
  3. "Map of the Western Division of the Fort Kearney South Pass and Honey Lake Road," 1857.