PRESS ARCHIVE
2018
Hot temps slow Pony Express Re-Ride (2018)
Just after 9 a.m. three hours after originally expected, the Pony Express Re-Ride galloped into the Fort Kearny station and organizers said it was the extreme temperatures that slowed down their pace. Continue reading…
Pony Express passes through county on historic re-ride
FORT LARAMIE – It’s an image that’s become synonymous with the Old West – The lone rider and his horse, making their way through potentially-hostile territory, ferrying news and letters from the east to the new territories in Wyoming and points west. Continue reading…
Annual Pony Express Re-ride underway
GOTHENBURG — Each June, members of the National Pony Express Association, established in 1978, recreate the Pony Express in a commemorative re-ride along the original route through the states of California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri.https://lexch.com/news/annual-pony-express-re-ride-underway/article_fe7a2a2c-7a4e-11e8-9bf8-db5ca2347829.html
Pony Express re-ride pass through area
FORT LARAMIE — Every year, the National Pony Express Association has hundreds of riders recreate the original Pony Express ride, which passed through Goshen and Scotts Bluff Counties on June 27.http://www.starherald.com/news/local_news/pony-express-re-ride-pass-through-area/article_8f1c1325-208f-5e8b-b4e2-4f41272ba7a7.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share
55 Hours Spent in Wyoming Along the Pony Express 2018
Local KCWY – Casper, WY news coverage of the 2018 Pony Express re-ride across Wyoming. Click to watch
Pony Express mail run reenactment hit Utah’s Camp Floyd State Park
Members of the National Pony Express Association rode horses through Utah over the weekend in its annual re-ride of the Pony Express mail run. http://kutv.com/news/local/pony-express-mail-run-reenactment-hit-utahs-camp-floyd-state-park
Pony Express re-ride hits Fort Kearny early Friday for mail handoff
KEARNEY — The National Pony Express Association’s re-ride of the Sacramento, Calif., to St. Joseph, Mo., mail route will reach Fort Kearny State Historical Park at 6 a.m. Friday. http://www.theindependent.com/news/regional/kearney/pony-express-re-ride-hits-fort-kearny-early-friday-for/article_2d709768-71d2-5eb0-9ad4-1364583015f7.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share
Traffic Jam “whoas” Pony Express, Nevada Re-RIders make up the time…
The riders averaged a time of around 12 seconds at each relay point, said Bell, which included two people removing the mochila from one horse, getting it placed on the second, and the rider re-saddling and taking off. By the time they reached Carson, they were 7 minutes ahead of schedule despite starting an hour … Continued
Our View: Pony Express rides again
Just as this edition of the Folsom Telegraph was headed to on the press and being prepared for delivery to our 24,000 weekly readers Wednesday evening, history was slated to be relived on Sutter Street in Folsom. Read more
Annual Pony Express Re-ride will travel from Old Sacramento, California, to St. Joseph, Missouri, stops at Scotts Bluff National Monument and Chimney Rock
SCOTTSBLUFF — It only lasted about 1½ years, but it made an indelible mark on the history of the American West. It was the Pony Express.http://www.starherald.com/news/local_news/annual-pony-express-re-ride-will-travel-from-old-sacramento/article_72758751-8976-5ba0-b9ed-fda2031ec83d.html