KANSAS NEWS ARCHIVE
Annual Pony Express Re-Ride To Stop In Marysville On June 18th
On Monday, June 17th, members of the National Pony Express Association will depart St. Joseph, MO for their annual Re-Ride. This 10-day event reenacts the historical 1,966-mile mail route from Missouri to California honoring the memory of the Pony Express Riders of the 1860s. Read More…
Annual Pony Express Re-Ride To Stop In Marysville On June 18th
On Monday, June 17th, members of the National Pony Express Association will depart St. Joseph, MO for their annual Re-Ride. This 10-day event reenacts the historical 1,966-mile mail route from Missouri to California honoring the memory of the Pony Express Riders of the 1860s. Read More…
PONY EXPRESS RE-RIDE JUNE 17-27
(MSC News)–Hoofbeats of history will echo across the historic Pony Express Trail, beginning next week. Read More…
Pony Express Re-ride taking place June 17-27
Hoofbeats of history will echo across the historic Pony Express Trail this June. Riders and horses of the National Pony Express Association will carry mail Pony Express style on June 17-27. Read More….
Pony Express riders will travel through Kansas again
The Pony Express will ride again, at least for 10 days in June. The Pony Express was an express mail delivery service that traveled between St. Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California. Read More…..
2023
Re-ride late but mail was delivered
Marysville’s Pony Express Barn and Museum was humming at dawn Saturday. Expectant riders, with families along to watch, prepared to drive horse trailers out on the National Pony Express Trail and wait their turn to relay the mail to St. Joseph, Mo., on horseback. Read More….
Pony Express Museum gets grant
Marysville’s Pony Express Barn Museum received a $100,000 state grant Read More….
2022
History comes alive with Pony Express Re-Ride
A family tradition with historic roots continued last week with the annual re-ride effort coordinated by the National Pony Express Association. Back in the 1960’s, Deb Hill, of Washington, said her father, Ralph Payne, participated in a similar effort along a portion of the Pony Express Trail for its 100-year anniversary. Read More…
Pony Express Re-ride retraces historic trail from Missouri to Pacific coast
MARYSVILLE, KS — It’s a tradition working to keep a part of western U.S. history alive. See More……