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  • For this reason several express companies were started and did excellent work; but the mail route called the Pony Express was the most interesting.

    History of California Helen Elliott Bandini

  • It was only a year before that election that the Pony Express was the talk of the nation, able to send a message cross country in seven days.

    Remarks By Vice President Al Gore ITY National Archives 1994

  • The great feat of the Pony Express was the delivering of Lincoln's inaugural address in 1861.

    History of California Helen Elliott Bandini

  • The Pony Express was a young man of not more than twenty years of age.

    The Girl of the Golden West David Belasco 1892

  • One of the most important transactions of the Pony Express was the transmittal of President Buchanan's last message, in December, 1860, from the Missouri River to Sacramento, over two thousand miles, in eight days and a few hours, and the next in importance was the carrying of President Lincoln's message, his inaugural of March 4,

    The Great Salt Lake Trail Henry Inman 1868

  • "And the Pony Express was the thin line that tied the nation's communication network together and provided California with the information that kept it in the Union."

    Columbia Missourian: Latest Articles MARSHALL WHITE/St. Joseph News Press 2010

  • "And the Pony Express was the thin line that tied the nation's communication network together and provided California with the information that kept it in the Union."

    Columbia Missourian: Latest Articles MARSHALL WHITE/St. Joseph News Press 2010

  • "It boils down to the fact that the Pony Express is a story of chance and courage," he said.

    Columbia Missourian: Latest Articles MARSHALL WHITE/St. Joseph News Press 2010

  • "It boils down to the fact that the Pony Express is a story of chance and courage," he said.

    Columbia Missourian: Latest Articles MARSHALL WHITE/St. Joseph News Press 2010

  • The Pony Express was a private mail service, which ran from April 1860 to October 1861.

    Horsetalk.co.nz Headlines 2009

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