SWEETWATER COUNTY — The Sweetwater County Pony Express will host their 23rd annual Christmas card ride on Saturday, Dec. 14. The cards will be carried on horseback from the Green River Post Office to the Rock Springs Post Office. Read More….
A life-sized horse and Pony Express rider will soon be a reality in Gothenburg. Artist and sculptor Linda Egle of Thedford is working on the project with a completion date estimated to be in the spring of 2025. Gothenburg will be host to the 2026 National Pony Express Convention. Read More….
SANTA FE, N.M. – The National Park Service (NPS) has selected Patrick Malone as program manager of Region 6, 7 and 8 National Trails Office. In this role, Malone will administer………..Pony Express National Historic Trail……… Read More…..
………………….On June 17, 2024, a crowd at the same historic location in St. Joseph cheered as a young woman on a horse started on the same historic route with saddlebags full of letters. The rider and an honor guard clip-clopped through St. Joe’s streets and over a four-lane bridge across the Missouri River. Ten days…
On Oct. 26, 1861, the legendary Pony Express officially ceased operations, giving way to the transcontinental telegraph. Read More….
(ST. JOSEPH, Mo.) The City of St. Joseph, Missouri, is hosting the National Pony Express Association’s (NPEA) annual convention this weekend for the first time in eight years. Read more…
After more than 85 years, Mother Nature is beginning to take a toll on a longtime centerpiece of Downtown and symbol of St. Joseph’s history. The Pony Express Monument has welcomed residents to Downtown St. Joseph on Frederick Avenue since it was first constructed in 1938, but decades of exposure are causing the massive granite…
CASPER — The donation of a $1.5 million Pony Express collection could jump-start a multimillion-dollar project that would make the Fort Caspar Museum a national draw for fans of the famously brief 18-month Western mail service. Casper City Council on Tuesday gave a thumbs up to accept the donation from the late Joe Nardone, a California collector…
CASPER, Wyo. — The Casper City Council gave an enthusiastic thumbs-up Tuesday to the project of acquiring a large collection of Pony Express artifacts, documents and art to be displayed at an expanded Fort Caspar Museum. The consultants behind the study heard Tuesday said that heritage tourism related to sites and artifacts of Westward Expansion…
NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (KNOP) – In the early 1860s, the Pony Express was established as an American express mail service, utilizing relays of horse-mounted riders to deliver mail between Missouri and California. Though it was the West’s most direct means of communication for a time, the service was short-lived, ending with the invention of the…
