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Soldiers Farewell Stage Station was a stagecoach stop of the 1858-1861
Butterfield Overland Mail Butterfield Overland Mail (officially Overland Mail Company)Waterman L. Ormsby, edited by Lyle H. Wright and Josephine M. Bynum, "The Butterfield Overland Mail", The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 1991. was a stagecoach service in ...
route before the company moved to the central route (former
Pony Express The Pony Express was an American express mail service that used relays of horse-mounted riders between Missouri and California. It was operated by the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company. During its 18 months of opera ...
route). West of "Soldiers Farewell Hill" on the west bank of a drainage arroyo, the stop was on the
Butterfield Overland Mail Butterfield Overland Mail (officially Overland Mail Company)Waterman L. Ormsby, edited by Lyle H. Wright and Josephine M. Bynum, "The Butterfield Overland Mail", The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 1991. was a stagecoach service in ...
route (1858-1861) in
Grant County, New Mexico Grant County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Mexico. At the 2020 census, the population was 28,185. Its county seat is Silver City. The county was founded in 1868 and named for Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United S ...
. According to the Overland Mail Company Through Time Schedule, it was 150 miles (33½ hours) west of
El Paso, Texas El Paso (; ; or ) is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States. The 2020 United States census, 2020 population of the city from the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Census Bureau was 678,815, making it the List of ...
and 184½ miles (41 hours) east of
Tucson, Arizona Tucson (; ; ) is a city in Pima County, Arizona, United States, and its county seat. It is the second-most populous city in Arizona, behind Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix, with a population of 542,630 in the 2020 United States census. The Tucson ...
. Located 42 miles east of Stein's Peak Station and 14 miles southwest of
Ojo de Vaca Station Cow Springs Ranch, formerly Ojo de Vaca Station, is a ranch headquartered at Cow Springs in Luna County, New Mexico, originally Ojo de Vaca when it was a Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach station at Ojo de Vaca (Cow Springs), in New Mexico Te ...
. List of Stations from New York Times, October 14 1858, Itinerary of the Route
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Street Scale map from TopoQuest
(accessed July 6, 2008).

History of Grant County, New Mexico New Mexico Territory Butterfield Overland Mail in New Mexico Territory Geography of Grant County, New Mexico 1858 establishments in New Mexico Territory Stagecoach stations in New Mexico {{NewMexico-geo-stub