AGENCY: Utah Geospatial Resource Center

SERIES: 27161
TITLE: Pony Express trail records
DATES: 2001-
ARRANGEMENT: Grouped by file type, thereunder chronological

DESCRIPTION: This geospatial data set represents the Pony Express Trail in Utah. The route was brutally simple; west out of St. Joseph, up the Platte and Sweetwater rivers, through South Pass and the Rockies to Salt Lake City, out across the Utah and Nevada deserts, up and over the Sierra Nevada and into California, as fast as man and animal could go, day and night. This dataset covers the Trail through Utah.

RETENTION

Permanent. Retain for 1 year(s)

DISPOSITION

Transfer to Archives.

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

Retention and disposition for this series is authorized by Archives general schedule Transportation records, GRS-2604

AUTHORIZED: 12/23/2008

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Computer data files: Retain in Office for 1 year or until superseded and then transfer to State Archives with authority to weed.

APPRAISAL

Historical

The disposition of these records is based on the historical need of the AGRC.

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Public

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