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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“It’s important that we remember our history.” The mayor was already clad in her rid uniform Monday, “The Pony Express vest, the red shirt and the yellow tie, and every Pony Express rider ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Gothenburg, a community in Dawson County, residents proudly claim two original Pony Express stations and continue to honor this heritage in various ways, even decades after the last rider ...

Brown Hall in downtown Columbus that he and this year’s Miracle Riders will tap into the history of the Pony Express from the Old West, delivering cards with personal greetings to people as ...

The National Pony Express Association switches every year off between riding eastward and westward. "My favorite part is that you're reliving history. You're doing part of the route that riders ...