News

The Pony Express National Museum in St. Joseph, Missouri, displays a collection of "Travel the Trail" historic photographs and a Hall of Riders, which pays homage to the men who delivered the mail.
SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS MADE. DRIVERS ON PONY EXPRESS TRAIL IN POLLOCK PINES SHOULD EXPECT DELAYS THIS WEEK. THE COUNTY IS REMOVING TREES TO CLEAR SPACE FOR SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS ALONG THE BUSY ...
The Pony Express Trail crosses 1,966 miles in eight states, and at one point in American history, the Pony Express was the fastest way to deliver mail.
The Pony Express only made it eighteen months before it was replaced by a national telegraph system, but in those few short months between April 1860 and October 1861, young, hard-riding men ...
End to end in ten days. That was the goal of the Pony Express mail service. To get mail from east to west in under two weeks, a serious goal in pre internet times.
While riding the 2,000-mile Pony Express Trail, I learned that the most dangerous aspect of the Utah desert isn’t the heat or the rattlesnakes or the lack of water ...
More than a year after five kids were hit by a van while crossing the street, progress is being made on safety improvements along Pony Express Trail in Pollock Pines.
The Oklahoma Golf Trail teed off Wednesday afternoon, and commissioners are hoping this is a hole-in-one for the state of Oklahoma.
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.
The contest honors the 165th anniversary of the Pony Express, which started in 1860 and delivered mail by horseback from St. Joseph to stops along a trail to Sacramento, California.
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 ...