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Pioneers, Pony Express riders, other trails travellers, and emigrants crossed the Big Blue River on Frank Marshall’s original ferry, paying up to $5.00 per wagon and 25 cents per head of livestock. The original ferry stood 1200 feet northwest of here from 1851 until 1864, when a bridge was built. A rope stretched across the river above the ferry, which rode a pulley back and forth, and by turning a wheel, another rope shifted the ferry into or away from the swift current that pushed it across the river.
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Marysville, Kansas · United States
