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 and Deadwood, South Dakota. The route operated beginning in 1876, during the height of the Black Hills Gold Rush, 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 Running Water saw a minor mining boom during the 1880s, but was superseded by Lusk, Wyoming, Lusk. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places 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