To recreate the historic Pony Express runs, volunteers on horseback are riding from California to St. Joe, where the last ...

The Hashknife Pony Express, the longest sanctioned U.S. Postal Service Pony Express route in the world, will be making its annual trip to Scottsdale on Jan. 30 to deliver mail and celebrate the ...

The Pony Express only lasted 18 months, ... one bag of mail that disappeared somewhere, probably ... the mail wasn’t ready. And the Pony couldn’t leave until it was.

Pony Express riders didn't just throw a standard mail bag over the back of their saddle. They had mochilas designed specially for the Pony Express—ones that look nothing like some of the ...

Riders galloping 24/7 and relaying a mail bag from horse to horse and man to man could cover the distance in 10 days. The first Pony Express rider arrived in Sacramento, Calif., on April 13, 1860 ...

Tuesday marks the 152nd anniversary of the Pony Express. What with the U.S. Postal Service hemorrhaging money and looking for ways to downsize, we thought we would examine the historical and ...

The opening of a Kingsbury Grade trail over Daggett Pass in 1860 allowed a perfect segue for Pony Express riders looking to trim time off their deadlines as they rushed mail by horseback 24-7 from ...

The Pony Express began its two-day journey from Phoenix to Prescott on Friday. ... The Phoenix JC Comancheros raise money by selling letters for $5 and then carrying the mail bags on horseback.

The Pony Express was a private mail service that ran between Sacramento and St. Joseph from April 3, 1860 until the connection of the transcontinental telegraph on Oct. 24, 1861.

The Pony Express defined the American West with its riders, many of them in their teens or 20s and a handful in their early 40s, endured extreme weather and the dangers posed from outlaws or Indians.

Albert Tritch signs the mail bag as he prepares to set off on his segment through southeastern Nebraska, on June 21, 2010, as riders recreate the Pony Express. (Photo by Keith Myers/Kansas City ...