page_title: List of historic properties in Dateland, Arizona
section_title: Butterfield Overland Mail Trail
hierarchical_section_title: List of historic properties in Dateland, Arizona / Butterfield Overland Mail Trail
caption_attribution_description: English: William Fourr Southern Overland Trail stage stop station on the old Butterfield Mail Trail
context_page_description: This is a list which includes a photographic gallery, of some of the remaining ruins and monuments of historic significance in Dateland, Arizona and the surrounding areas which include Hyder and Sentinel. Dateland is a CDP and a populated place in Yuma County. The area was once inhabited by Native-American tribes. Dateland is named after its Medjool date trees. It was once the home of two World War II training camps, Camp Horn and Camp Hyder. The town also served as the home to the Dateland Army Air Field, a World War II United States Army Air Forces training airfield.
context_section_description: The Mormon Battalion Trail was later used by the Butterfield Overland Mail Route. The Butterfield Overland Mail Trail was a stagecoach service in the United States, operating from 1857 to 1861. In 1867, the trail was once more used and was known as the Southern Overland Trail.
  William Fourr (1841–1935) was born in Missouri. Like so many other pioneers, Fourr headed to Arizona in search of gold. He did not excel as a prospector and instead worked as a rider on the Southern Arizona mail route. He eventually became a rancher, Apache Indian fighter and finally a cattleman. Fourr and his family established a ranch on Datelands Oatman Flat. Fourr, who was once an agent of the Butterfield Stage Stop, built a Southern Overland Trail stage stop station on the old Butterfield Mail Trail in 1869.
  Nate Salsbury (1846–1902), who was the principal owner and business manager for William F. Cody 's "Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show", owned a ranch in Dateland. Salsbury was also a mining partner of William F. Cody a.k.a. Buffalo Bill Cody. Allegedly Buffalo Bill resided for a short time with his friend and in 1890, scratched "Bill Cody 1890" in wall inside the adobe and stone house. That same year Salsbury died and Cody headed to Oracle, Arizona. The ruins of the stone house are located on the frontage road just off the Spot Road in Dateland.
caption: Ruins of the Southern Overland Trail stage stop station built by William Fourr
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