Imagine you live in the year 1860 with vast wilderness, wide-open plains and high desert between Missouri and California. You’re one of the chosen riders on top of a horse with a mochila strapped on your saddle, navigating along the trail where unknown dangers may be ahead.

You’re not on a leisure trip, you’re one of a team of boys and young men traveling 1,966 miles in 10 days on horseback, delivering mail to and from the West.

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