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

As of May 2025, nearly 30 western-themed steel silhouettes have been placed along Wyoming’s highways including Pony Express ...

He said the fourth annual Cody Days event, free and open to the public, will include local history displays and ... ranch hand, Pony Express rider and Army scout before turning to show business ...

Perhaps one of Philip R. Goodwin’s most familiar paintings was for Winchester and depicts a Pony Express rider galloping atop his horse at full tilt while cradling a rifle.

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 ...

Lee was hoping to bring a piece of that history home ... led a storied life in the mid-1800s and 1900s as a soldier, Pony Express rider, hunter and performer. Between touring internationally ...

INCLINE VILLAGE Dressed in his signature white suit, Samuel Clemens picks up his pipe and recalls the time he challenged a newspaper editor who had been disparaging him to a duel in Virginia City. Out ...

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 ...

In the movies and in history books, wagon trains, scouting. He was a messenger for Russell and Majors. Yeah, yeah, yes. And then so that was the incentive of Bill becoming a Pony Express rider.

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 ...

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 ...