HISTORICAL MARKER
COW CREEK STATION

          One mile south is the hand-dug well that served the U. S. Cavalry and Santa Fe Trail travelers in the 1860s.

          For five days in July, 1864, 600 Indians besieged a trading post near the well and a wagon train nearby. When the attackers tried to overrun the post, "Buffalo Bill" Mathewson fired a small cannon into the midst of several on horseback and afoot, ending the siege.

          A later "Buffalo Bill", William F. Cody worked at the site briefly before moving in 1867 to Ellsworth, where he gained the cognomen by killing buffalo for railroad workers.