CHERRY CREEK, NEVADA

n the spring of 1860 Mormon pioneer Howard Egan, superintendent of the Pony Express line from Salt Lake City into east central Nevada, opened a relay station in a canyon 5 miles south of the future townsite of Cherry Creek. When the express folded 18 months later, the station continued to serve stagecoaches plying the Overland Trail until 1869, when the transcontinental railroad supplanted the stages. All the while wealth lay beneath the