From April 3, 1860 to November 21, 1861, mail was delivered between St. Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California by a relay system of 190 stations from which a fresh horse was provided riders every 12-15 miles; 1900 miles in total, taking 10 to 12 days in the summer, 12-16 days in the winter. The forthcoming tale on the Pony Express explores the remarkable, and often unreported connection between the entrepreneurial drive of the Express’s founder-investors and the native character of the California horse; inseparable in spirit – a relentless pursuit of what has become a wonderfully enduring myth of the American west and its place in Jeffersonian manifest destiny.
More to come…
