News From: NPEA Nebraska Division
SCOTTSBLUFF — “Wanted: Young, skinny, wiry fellows not over eighteen. Must be expert riders, willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred.”
According to Old West legend, that’s how the help-wanted advertisement read when the Pony Express began rounding up riders to carry the mail across a still-untamed frontier.
The National Pony Express Association, which keeps the memory of the short-lived mail service alive, will again relay mail by horse and rider over the famed Pony Express National Historic Trail next week.