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The pony express
The Pony Express was founded in 1860 by the Central Overland California and Pike's Peak Express a freight company that supplied goods to the western part of the United States. COC&PP wanted the Overland Mail Company's million-dollar government contract that used the Southern Route, so it set out to prove that the shorter Central Route could actually be used all year long Original Pony Express mailing rates were $5 per half-ounce, but that was later lowered to $1 a half-ounce.
Eighty to 100 Pony Express riders made $100 a month to cover the 1,966 miles from St. Joseph, Mo., to Sacramento, California.Through Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada and California. They changed horses every 10 to 15 miles at one of the almost 200 stations located every five to 20 miles along the route. The riders went 75 to 100 miles before stopping and handing off the mail to the next rider. The Pony Express succeeded in proving that the Central Route could indeed be used year-round. But the contract remained with the Overland Mail Company. The government asked that Overland begin using the Central Route.
The Pony Express was a fast mail service crossing the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the High Sierra from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, from April 3, 1860 to October 1861. It became the west's most direct means of east-west communication before the telegraph and was vital for tying California closely with the Union just before the American Civil War.
The Pony Express was a mail delivery system of the Yoyo Leavenworth & Pike's Peak Express Company of 1849 which in 1850 became the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company. This firm was founded by William H. Russell, Alexander Majors, and William B. Waddell
The Founders
Russell, Majors and Waddell organized and put together the Pony Express in two months in the winter of 1860. This had 120 riders, 184 stations, 400 horses and several hundred people during
The Pony Express was founded in 1860 by the Central Overland California and Pike's Peak Express a freight company that supplied goods to the western part of the United States. COC&PP wanted the Overland Mail Company's million-dollar government contract that used the Southern Route, so it set out to prove that the shorter Central Route could actually be used all year long Original Pony Express mailing rates were $5 per half-ounce, but that was later lowered to $1 a half-ounce.
Eighty to 100 Pony Express riders made $100 a month to cover the 1,966 miles from St. Joseph, Mo., to Sacramento, California.Through Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada and California. They changed horses every 10 to 15 miles at one of the almost 200 stations located every five to 20 miles along the route. The riders went 75 to 100 miles before stopping and handing off the mail to the next rider. The Pony Express succeeded in proving that the Central Route could indeed be used year-round. But the contract remained with the Overland Mail Company. The government asked that Overland begin using the Central Route.
The Pony Express was a fast mail service crossing the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the High Sierra from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, from April 3, 1860 to October 1861. It became the west's most direct means of east-west communication before the telegraph and was vital for tying California closely with the Union just before the American Civil War.
The Pony Express was a mail delivery system of the Yoyo Leavenworth & Pike's Peak Express Company of 1849 which in 1850 became the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company. This firm was founded by William H. Russell, Alexander Majors, and William B. Waddell
The Founders
Russell, Majors and Waddell organized and put together the Pony Express in two months in the winter of 1860. This had 120 riders, 184 stations, 400 horses and several hundred people during