The Pony Express was a mail delivery service that was established in April of 1860. It was the brainchild of William H. Russell, William B. Waddell and Alexander Majors, the owners of Central Overland California and Pike’s Peak Express Company. The service lasted for little more than a year, but managed to secure a place…
Today In History: Washington DC abolishes slave trade, U.S. Supreme Court rules that black citizens are eligible to vote… Read More …
In 1860, the legendary Pony Express began carrying mail between St. Joseph, Mo., and Sacramento. (The delivery system lasted only 18 months before giving way to the transcontinental telegraph.) Read More …
Today in History Today is Tuesday, April 3, the 93rd day of 2018. There are 272 days left in the year. Read more…
How is your German? Check out this article in the German “Der Spiegel” about the Pony Express. Read More …
With stops in North America, Europe and Hawaii, Travel Channel’s culinary explorer, Andrew Zimmern, will continue his epicurean road trip through history with seven new episodes of the popular series, “Bizarre Foods.” Production begins this month with a shoot on Hawaii’s Big Island. Throughout the new season, which will hit the air later this year,…
The Pony Express relay system was the most direct and practical means of east-west communications before the telegraphRead More…
The Pony Express Statue in St. Joseph had its dedication in 1940, a bronze work atop Vermont granite meant to immortalize a signature activity in the city’s past. Read More …
The annual re-ride of the Pony Express begins with a ceremony at 2:30 p.m. Monday, June 5, at the Patee House Museum, 1202 Penn St. The riders will travel across the Missouri River to Elwood, Kansas, and then on through seven states to reach their destination in Sacramento, California. Penny Orrick of St. Joseph will…
Just before the Civil War broke out, only two states west of Texas had joined the Union. Communications before 1860 between newly admitted California and Oregon and the main United States had to travel 25 days by stagecoach across nearly 2,000 miles of frontier — or even farther by steamer ship around South America. The…
