By Victor Block Around 1857, a man named Gerat Hollenberg and his wife, Sophia, built a modest wood-shingled house in present ...

An illustration of a Pony Express rider passing men putting up telegraph ... "He simply liked to insert himself into history," as Buffalo Bill researcher Sandra Sagala wrote on the Smithsonian ...

The average age of a Pony Express rider was about 20 ... Sources: “United States: An Illustrated History” by Ron Fisher, “Chronicle of America” by Dorling Kindersley, Smithsonian National ...

National Postal Museum, SI In 1860, an ill-fated Pony Express rider, whose name has been lost to history, was crossing the trackless wastes of Nevada when he vanished, likely killed by Indians.

Despite the cost, Pony Express riders carried 34,753 pieces of mail and rode the same distance as if they’d urged their ponies to race 24 trips around the world. The first rider may have been ...

The Pony Express National Museum at 914 Penn St. is celebrating the 165th anniversary of Pony Express rider Johnny Fry leaving ... “That’s some of the early history in Doniphan County ...

On Wednesday, June 11 the thunder of hooves and the spirit of the old west return to Old Town Sacramento as the 2025 Pony Express Annual Re-Ride sets off on ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — The Pony Express Museum is celebrating a major milestone honoring the famous, but short-lived, mail service. On April 3, 1860, the first rider left St. Joseph ...