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The Crowds Cheered On The Route of the Pony Express Trail Pony Express National White Buffalo Nation, Inc. Historic Trail Bureau of Land Management Garden Pass National Trails System National Park Service “Every neck is stretched, and every eye strained . Across the endless prairie a black spec appears . In a second or two it becomes a horse … and rider, rising and falling . sweeping toward us — growing more The Crowds Cheered On and more distinct, and the flutter of hoofs comes faintly to the ear — another instant a whoop and a hurrah from our upper deck, a wave of the rider’s hand, but no reply, and man and horse burst past our n 1845, it took six months to get a message from the East Coast Knowing that a healthy horse could typically run at a gallop for excited faces, and go winging away like a belated fragment of a storm.” of the United States to California. By the late 1850s, a half 8 to 12 miles, the developers needed to place stations at strategic I — Mark Twain, Roughing It, 1872. Traveling on the million people had migrated west and were demanding up-to- locations for its riders to change mounts. Existing stage stations Overland Stage in the summer of 1861 date news from home. Something had to be done to deliver mail and road ranches on the eastern end of the route would meet their faster and to improve communication in the expanding nation. needs, but new relay stations would have to be built in remote western areas. Alexander Majors purchased up to 500 mustang The Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express horses, hired 200 men to manage the stations, and signed up 80 Company, a subsidiary of a major freighting company owned riders to begin the first run of the Pony Express on April 3, 1860. by the firm of Russell, Majors, and Waddell, announced the formation of the Pony Express on January 27, 1860. In hopes of Although the Pony Express captured the admiration and hearts attracting a lucrative contract with the U. S. Postal Service, these of people around the world, it was a financial disaster for its entrepreneurs developed a proposal to carry letter mail and founders. Eighteen months after the Pony Express began, it ended telegraphs between Missouri and California in only 10 days. with the completion of the First Transcontinental Telegraph on October 26, 1861. Charles Hargen’s First Ride of the Pony Express Pony Express National Museum, St. Joseph, Missouri B DALLAS S N E SALEM N A BILLINGS r I O BOZEMAN r e Y V 90 ive r MINNEAPOLIS ST. 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