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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. Read More…
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. Read More…
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.Read More
Watch Pony Express riders depart Sacramento, just like old times
“So help me, God,” Annette Nylander said. The oath of the National Pony Express Association was complete.https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article213561639.html
Utah played ‘a key role’ in Pony Express history, says ‘West Like Lightning’ author
SALT LAKE CITY — A prolific writer, Jim DeFelice has authored thrillers to nonfiction to co-authoring (with Chris Kyle and Scott McEwan) the memoir “American Sniper” that became an Academy Award-nominated film. Read More …
Pony Express Arrives in Carson City Thursday June 21, 2018
The annual Pony Express Re-ride, a re-enactment of the original Pony Express Route that spanned nearly 2,000 miles passing through what are now seven western states, is returning to Carson City this Thursday…Continue reading…
Pony Express riders leave Sacramento Tuesday
GUERNSEY—Although their portion of the event is a week away for the Southeast Wyoming Pony Express Association riders, the first rider for the annual re-ride of the National Pony Express Association heads out of Sacramento, California this Wednesday at 3 p.m. PST.Read More …