News From: NPEA Wyoming Division
UPDATE: The rider will be at the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center at roughly 3pm Friday, June 9th. He should be at Fort Caspar around 3:45.
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It only existed for 19 months. but from 1860 to 1861, the start of the Civil War, the Pony Express was the fastest way to get a letter from one end of the country to the other.
And on the way, it carved itself a niche as one of the most daring and romantic chapters of the opening of the west. The advertisement recruiting young riders was blunt…”Wanted: Young, skinny, wiry fellows not over eighteen. Must be expert riders, willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred.”