Ride, an annual tribute to the legendary mail service of 1860–61, begins on June 18 when the Wyoming Division hands off the ...

Across the West are remnants of historic trails, wagon roads, emigrant routes and what’s left of dreams in dry places. In the 19th century, Americans traversed our country on horseback and in wagons, ...

Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress // Public Domain Alexander Majors, alongside co-founders William Russell and William Waddell, had just two months to get the Pony Express up ...

the Express hired small, wiry men who weighed between 100 and 125 pounds — about the size of a modern horse jockey — to ride the trail. The average age of a Pony Express rider was about 20 ...

This relay system along the Pony Express National Historic Trail crossing eight states was the most direct and practical means of east-west communications in 1860. From Missouri to California the ...

Horseback riders commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Pony Express arrive in Casper this ... Boulevard at about 6:15 p.m. and the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center on North ...

Pony Express is a high-energy relay race on horseback ... According to the Oklahoma Historical Society, after the Trail of Tears and the Emancipation Proclamation, the Cherokee, Chickasaw ...

he Pollock Pines Friends of the Library book sale will take place on Friday, May 23 , from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The popular event will be held in the Safeway breezeway at 6498 Pony Express Trail.

An Easter weekend tradition in Iowa since the 1960s returns this year with the Pony Express Ride to benefit Camp Sunnyside, for children and adults with and without disabilities. Horseback riders ...