For a brief period in 1860 and 1861, the mail delivery service reduced the time it took to carry messages from Missouri to California to just 10... How The Pony Express Galloped Into History The Pony ...

Introduction: a splendid moment in history -- Conquering the great expanse -- Young men and mustangs -- The ride that launched a legend -- Over prairie and plain -- Along the Platte -- Along the ...

Out here, miles from nowhere, one doesn't need much of an imagination to visualize "Pony Bob" Haslam galloping by on his horse while being pursued by Indians. As the story goes, Haslam rode a record ...

"The pony rider was usually a little bit of a man, brimful of spirit and endurance…ready to leap into the saddle and be off like the wind!" Mark Twain ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — Leaping astride a bay mare, ...

The Pony Express only lasted 18 months, but the mail delivery service remains one of the most enduring icons of the American West — its story told in dime novels and in Westerns like the 1990s TV show ...