The annual re-ride of the historic Pony Express mail service will be conducted June 10-21 by the National Pony Express Association. The event, celebrating 165 years of “the Pony,” will start in Sacramento and end in St. Joseph, Mo., traveling west to east this year.
Personal letters and Commemorative letters will be carried in a mochila (a leather square that is placed over the saddle, with four locked cantinas to hold the mail) by horse and rider relays from the Sacramento River to the Missouri River. The first rider will depart Old Sacramento on Wednesday, June 11, at 2 p.m. Pacific Time and the last rider is scheduled to arrive at the Patee House in St. Joseph, Mo., on Saturday, June 21, at 7:30 p.m. Central Time.