The Rawhide Buttes

Stage Station A stage station or relay station, also known as a staging post, a posting station, or a stage stop, is a place where exhausted horses could be replaced by fresh animals, since a long journey was much faster without delays when horses needed rest ...

, the Running Water Stage Station and the Cheyenne-Black Hills Stage Route comprise a historic district that commemorates the stage coach route between

Cheyenne, Wyoming Cheyenne ( or ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Wyoming, as well as the county seat of Laramie County, Wyoming, Laramie County, with 65,132 residents, per the 2020 US Census. It is the principal city of the Cheyenne ...

and

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. The route operated beginning in 1876, during the height of the

Black Hills Gold Rush The Black Hills Gold Rush took place in Dakota Territory in the United States. It began in 1874 following the Custer Expedition and reached a peak in 1876–77. Rumors and poorly documented reports of gold in the Black Hills go back to the early ...

, and was replaced in 1887 by a railroad. The Rawhide Buttes station was demolished in 1973 after having functioned as a ranch headquarters. The ruin of the stage station barn is the only remnant of the Running Water Station, which stood about north of Rawhide Butte near the stage route's intersection with the Texas Trail. Running Water saw a minor mining boom during the 1880s, but was superseded by Lusk. The district was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...

in 1969.

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* at the National Park Service's NRHP database
Cheyenne-Black Hills Stage Route Historic District
at the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office Geography of Niobrara County, Wyoming Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Wyoming National Register of Historic Places in Niobrara County, Wyoming Stagecoach stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Wyoming Demolished buildings and structures in Wyoming 1876 establishments in Wyoming Territory Buildings and structures demolished in 1973 1973 disestablishments in Wyoming {{Wyoming-NRHP-stub