In the era before electronic communication, the Pony Express was the thread that tied East to West.
Poster from the Pony Express, advertising fast mail delivery to San
William H. Russell, Alexander Majors, and William B. Waddell created the Central ... In November 1861 the last Pony Express letters completed their journey.
By the end of the Pony Express, the price had dropped to $1.00 per 1⁄2 ounce but even that was considered expensive to mail
The Pony Express operated for less than two years, but its
That war halted service from early May 1860 into July of that year and made travel in the ...
The riders of the Pony Express made $100 a month, which was pretty good
What made the Pony Express work were the stations that dotted the route to switch out horses and riders. Each rider went for an average of 50 ...
shuttered on October 26, 1861, and the last remaining mail was delivered soon after.
to California had created an increasing demand for mail delivery to and from the East.