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Ranked among the most remarkable feats to come out of the 1860 American West, the Pony Express was in service from April 1860 to November 1861. Its primary mission was to deliver mail and news between St. Joseph, Missouri, and San Francisco, California. Please visit the Bunkhouse where you will be able to sign our guest book, post messages on the Home Station Message Board, or send e-mail to me (Tom Crews). You will also find a brief introduction to the various areas that you can explore here at the Pony Express Home Station. Please visit the the Pony Express School House. This page has been created particularly for students and teachers who wish to use the resources of the Pony Express Home Station. people have visited this site from all over the United States and from thirty-eight foreign countries . Thank you for your support and kind comments.

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Purpose: To provide the fastest mail delivery between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California. To draw public attention to the central route in hope of gaining the million dollar government mail contract for the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company. Date: April 3, 1860, to late October 1861. Mechanics: Relay of mail by horses and riders. The Pony Express ran day and night, summer and winter. Riders: 183 men are known to have ridden for the Pony Express during its operation of just over 18 months. One of the riders was Broncho Charlie . This is a great page all about him. Rider Qualifications: Ad in California newspaper read: "Wanted. Young, skinny, wiry fellows. Not over 18. Must be expert riders. Willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred." Most riders were around 20. Youngest was 11. Oldest was mid-40s. Not many were orphans. Usually weighed around 120 pounds. Riders Pay $100 per month. First Riders: Johnny Fry was first westbound rider from St. Joseph. Billy Hamilton was first eastbound driver from Sacramento. Rider Relay: New riders took over every 75 to 100 miles.

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City Manager's Office The Pony Express Pony Express Museum 914 Penn Street St. Joseph, MO 64503 816-279-5059 or 1-800-530-5930 Museum Hours Monday thru Saturday: 9 am - 5 pm Sunday: 1 pm -5 pm Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Day, New Year's Eve and Day. Pony Express rider Billy Fisher "Moment in Time" exhibit Pony Express Museum Original well in the Pony Express stables. On April 3, 1860, more than a century and a quarter ago, the people of St. Joseph gathered to witness an event as exciting in those days as our space travels are to this generation. It is difficult to imagine, with today's instant world-wide communications by satellite and computer, the problems that must have faced our nation's settlers just before the Civil War. Settlers headed west from her faced a 2,000-mile trip by wagon train that often took three months of hardships. Those who had already reached California and its promise of gold found themselves cut off from the rest of the world. At a time when there were no telephones, radios or telegraph, letters from New York to San Francisco took 30 day by steamship around South America. An overland mail route by Butterfield Express took 23 days for delivery.

6. Welcome To The St. Joseph Museum Exhibits and information on the pony express, Jesse James, Native american history, Oregon and California Trails, Lewis and Clark, and natural history of Northwest Missouri. http://www.stjosephmuseum.org/

Welcome to The St. Joseph Museum Inc. Visit any of our sites: The Black Archives of St. Joseph The Fire Museum Missouri Valley Trust Bank Building Mount Mora Cemetery Twin Spires Museum Wyeth-Tootle Mansion St. Joseph Museum Inc., PO Box 128 St. Joseph, MO 64502-0128 e-mail at sjm@stjosephmuseum.org 816-232-8471 or 800-530-8866 Traveling Exhibits NEW! Visit Us Exhibits Events Museum Store ... Pioneer Wall Completed list of pioneers who jumped off from St. Joseph headed towards Oregon or California Through the Camera's Eye Volkswalk Fun Stuff Coming Soon! Click below for related sites Limited Handicap Accessibility Accredited by the American Association of Museums Home Page Events Exhibits ... Visit Us © 2003 St. Joseph Museum Inc. Last updated by the Staff of St. Joseph Museum Inc.

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FL Social Studies Curr Framework matched to American History for Kids Benchmark SS.A.2.1.1 knows methods of communication from long ago and the technological developments that facilitated communications (e.g., speaking by gestures; transmitting stories orally; the use of pictographs, hieroglyphics and different alphabets; writing by hand and printing with machines). A. Time, Continuity, and Change (History) : 2. The student understands the world from its beginnings to the time of the Renaissance. : GRADES Pre K-2 Component: American History for Kids - The Pony Express Reference: Required: K-2 Suggested: Interested: Component: The Oregon Trail Reference: NA Required: K-2 Suggested: Interested: Component: America's First Transcontinental Railroad Reference: Required: K-2 Suggested: Interested: Component: The Great Steamboat Race Reference: Required: K-2 Suggested: Interested: Benchmark SS.A.2.1.2 understands the differences in the methods of travel from various times in human history and the advantages and disadvantages of each (e.g., the use of animals such as horses and camels; nonmotorized vehicles such as chariots and travoises). A. Time, Continuity, and Change (History) : 2. The student understands the world from its beginnings to the time of the Renaissance. : GRADES Pre K-2

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American History For Kids American History For Kids is a 6 part video series that explores our unique heritage; our first transcontinental railroad, the Pony Express, inventing the steamboat, mapping the Oregon Trail, and the Civil War. These are the stories of America's 19th century explorers, soldiers, and adventurers, those men and women and children who helped shape the country we live in today. This series, narrated by children, celebrates our nation's rich history through the first-hand experiences and eyewitness accounts of young pioneers, travelers, express riders, soldiers, and laborers who helped fulfill America's Manifest Destiny. Part 1 - America's First Transcontinental Railroad Part 2 - The Pony Express Part 3 - The American Civil War Part 4 - The Oregon Trail Part 5 - The Great Steamboat Race Part 6 - Trolleys Series also available without the American Civil War video for $620. Release Date: Minutes: Grade Level: K-6 VHS$: To order this video, please feel free to call us at or email us at landmrkmed@aol.com

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History of the Pony Express THE STORY OF THE PONY EXPRESS Pony Express, mail service operating between Saint Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California, inaugurated on April 3, 1860, under the direction of the Central Overland California and Pike's Peak Express Company. At that time, regular mail delivery took up to three weeks to cross the continent. The Pony Express carried mail rapidly overland on horseback the nearly 2000 miles between St. Joseph and Sacramento; the schedule allowed ten days for the trip. The mail was then carried by boat to San Francisco. Stations averaging at first 40 km (25 mi) apart were established, and each rider was expected to cover 120 km (75 mi) a day. Pony Express riders were usually lightweight young men, often teenagers. Special saddle bags that could be moved to a fresh horse very quickly at a change station were used. Buffalo Bill was a famous Pony Express rider. Eventually, the Pony Express had more than 100 stations, 80 riders, and between 400 and 500 horses. The express route was extremely hazardous, but only one mail delivery was ever lost. The Pony Express is credited with helping to keep California in the Union by providing rapid communication between the two coasts. News of the election of Abraham Lincoln to the United States presidency in 1860 and of the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861 reached California via the Pony Express. The regular Pony Express service was discontinued in October 1861, after the Pacific Telegraph Company completed its line to San Francisco.

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The Saga of the Pony Express Joseph J. Di Certo NEW! "WantedYoung skinny, wiry fellows not over eighteen. Must be expert riders, willing to risk death daily... Orphans preferred." Pony Express poster, 1860 " The Pony Express is world famous, yet few know the details of this exciting chapter in American history. Joe Di Certo's book, The Saga of the Pony Express, carries readers over 2,000 miles of dangerous trail to describe each station, its operators and owners, and sometimes the tragedies that happened at these remote sites. His book adds new insight to the heroic young riders who helped hold the nation together for 18 months while the transcontinental telegraph inched its way across the western United States." Gary Chilcote, director, Patee House Museum, and vice president, National Pony Express Association "Joe Di Certo takes you on a literary adventure of experiencing the lore, romance, and history of the Pony Express. The Saga of the Pony Express is a fun and easy way to learn not only about the famous transcontinental mail delivery of 1860-1861 but also about the way of life in mid-1800s America. This book will have appeal to all ages."

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Location: Nevada Pony Express Rich in Natural Wonders, Western History Nevada's Pony Express Territory is an open air museum of natural history and western Americana, where visitors may touch and play among the exhibits. The Territory spans North Central Nevada and the main highway is U.S 50, which was described some years ago by Life Magazine writer as " Loneliest Road in America ". Visitors to the area can take a ride beginning on U.S Highway 50 in the west, and see what the Pony Express riders saw. Visit Online Highways' interactive American History project. A team of researchers is developing a site that will present U.S. history in the context of present day travel. Email Below are additional pages related to this one. Points of Interest Fallon Churchill County Museum and Archives Cities Austin Lowest Rates and Free candid reviews for at Tripadvisor.com. Flying to Las Vegas? Stay at the Doubletree Club Las Vegas Airport. Cheap Airfare to Hawaii Stay At A ... Lodging.com and Travelnow each offer a wide range of hotel brands plus specially negotiated bargain rates. To Find What You Need in Nevada Use Verizon SuperPages.com

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The Postal Role in U.S. Development Between the Revolutionary period and the first World War, United States postal officials applied themselves to improving transportation of the mails. From those early days to the present, the Postal Service has helped develop and subsidize every new mode of transportation in the United States. The postal role was a natural one; apart from postal employees themselves, transportation was the single most important element in mail delivery, literally, the legs of communication. Even when the general public was skeptical or fearful of a new means of transportation, postal officials experimented with inventions that offered potential for moving the mail faster, occasionally suffering embarrassment, ridicule, or even abuse in the process. As mail delivery evolved from foot to horseback, stagecoach, steamboat, railroad, automobile, and airplane, with intermediate and overlapping use of balloons, helicopters, and pneumatic tubes, mail contracts ensured the income necessary to build the great highways, rail lines, and airways that eventually spanned the continent. By the turn of the 19th century, the Post Office Department had purchased a number of stagecoaches for operation on the nation's better post roads a post road being any road on which the mail traveled and continued to encourage new designs to improve passenger comfort and carry mail more safely.

16. Pony Express Monument Sacramento, California pony express Monument. of Western Union's transcontinental telegraph put the express out of Visit Online Highways' interactive american history project. http://www.caohwy.com/p/ponyexmo.htm

Location: Sacramento California Pony Express Monument In April 1860, 80 riders completed the 1,966-mile run on horseback to St. Joseph, Missouri, in ten days or less. In October 1861, the completion of Western Union's transcontinental telegraph put the "Express" out of business. The monument is located in Old Sacramento Lowest Rates and Free candid reviews for Sacramento at Tripadvisor.com. Visit Online Highways' interactive American History project. A team of researchers is developing a site that will present U.S. history in the context of present day travel. Sacramento CA Historical Average Weather Readings Current Weather and Forecasts for California Traffic, Road and Highway Conditions for California Lowest Rates and Free candid reviews for Sacramento at Tripadvisor.com. Cheap Airfare to Hawaii Stay At A Shilo ... Lodging.com and Travelnow Tripadvisor.com. To Find What You Need in Sacramento Use Verizon SuperPages.com Airlines Airports Apartments Art Galleries Attractions Campgrounds Maps Museums Newspapers Real Estate Restaurants Weather Other Find Great Deals and Free reviews for Sacramento at Tripadvisor.com.

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This History Page is a compilation of People, Places, Vocabulary, and Dates of the Pony Express. The Overland Mail The Need The Founders Pony Express Route ... Dates The Overland Mail The idea behind the Pony Express—a horseback relay mail service—goes back at least as far as thirteenth-century China, where Marco Polo saw “post stations twenty-five miles apart.” Oregon missionary Marcus Whitman proposed in 1843 using a relay of “fresh horses” to deliver mail from the Missouri to the Columbia in forty days. In 1845 it took President James K. Polk six months to get a message to California, which dramatically pointed up the need to improve communications in the expanding nation. After the Gold Rush brought hundreds of thousands of Americans to the far west, getting the mail between the nation’s coasts became an increasingly important problem. Source: National Park Service Pony Express National Historic Trail Brochure The Need With the discovery of gold followed by statehood, the population of California exploded. Half a million Americans lived in the regions west of the rocky mountains. At that time, St. Joseph, Missouri, was the westernmost point which the railroad and telegraph had reached. It was the strategic starting point over the heart of the "great American desert" by way of the direct "Central" route to the west. Except for a few forts and settlements the route beyond St. Joseph was a vast, silent wilderness inhabited primarily by Indians. Transportation across this area on a year-round bases was believed impossible because of weather.

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The Library of Congress The Pony Express Saddled Horse Ninety-Six Ranch, Paradise Valley, Nevada, Carl Fleischhauer, photographer, Buckaroos in Paradise, 1945-1982 On October 24 , 1861, the first transcontinental telegraph system was completed, making it possible to transmit messages rapidly (by mid-19th-century standards) from coast to coast. This technological advance, pioneered by inventor Samuel F.B. Morse , brought an end to the Pony Express, the horseback mail service which had previously provided the fastest communication between the East and the West. Established in April 1860 as a subsidiary of a famous freight company, the Pony Express operated between St. Joseph, Missouri , and Sacramento, California, using a continuous relay of the best riders and horses. The nearly 2000 mile route running through present-day Kansas , Nebraska, the northeast corner of Colorado , Wyoming, Utah , Nevada, and California included vast stretches of rugged terrain once thought impassable in winter. Pushing the physical limits of man and beast, the Pony Express ran nonstop. Summer deliveries averaged ten days, while winter deliveries required twelve to sixteen days, approximately half the time needed by stagecoach. When delivering President Lincoln's Inaugural Address, the Express logged its fastest time ever at seven days and seventeen hours.

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20. Hollenburg Pony Express Station Hanover, Kansas (Historic Houses) sleeping room for pony express and stage line employees. Find similar pages at HistoricHouses. Visit Online Highways' interactive american history project. http://www.ohwy.com/ks/h/holpsshs.htm

Location: Hanover Kansas Historic Houses Hollenburg Pony Express Station State Historic Site The only Pony Express station remaining unaltered in its original location, this station was built by G.H. Hollenberg to function as both his home and his place of business. The business was supported by the busy traffic on the Oregon Trail. The six downstairs rooms in the building housed the store, an unofficial post office, a tavern and family living quarters. The upstairs served as a common sleeping room for Pony Express and stage line employees. Find similar pages at Historic Houses Lowest Rates and Free candid reviews for Hanover at Tripadvisor.com. Visit Online Highways' interactive American History project. A team of researchers is developing a site that will present U.S. history in the context of present day travel. Highway 243 Hanover KS Voice Phone Email Lowest Rates and Free candid reviews for Hanover at Tripadvisor.com. Visit Eureka Springs Arkansas America's Victorian Village ... Lodging.com and Travelnow Tripadvisor.com. To Find What You Need in Hanover Use Verizon SuperPages.com

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