<p>The Pony Express was the most prominent source for delivering news and mail between the east and west until the implementation of the transcontinental telegraph in October of 1861.</p> <p>The ...

There is something timeless in the sound of a horse’s hooves on the Wyoming prairie, the heat of the sun beating on a dusty rider as she crests a hill. While men may have penned the history of the ...

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Around 1857, a man named Gerat Hollenberg and his wife, Sophia, built a modest wood-shingled house in present-day Kansas, four years before the territory became a state. The structure also served as a ...

The Pony Express galloped into Carson Valley Wednesday. Riders were scheduled to leave Old Sacramento at 7 p.m. Tuesday and cross into Nevada at Fredricksburg at 2 p.m. Pony Express spokesman Larry ...

But even Bennett, who once broke a rib and tore spinal ligaments in a bike race and recovered to ride 327 miles across Utah and Nevada to reach Burning Man, has a limit to what she can endure. On May ...

The Pony Express was the most prominent source for delivering news and mail between the east and west until the implementation of the transcontinental telegraph in October 1861. The approximately ...

The ride was part of Jan Bennett's effort to map out a bikepacking route that followed the trail of Pony Express.

“People had a hard time finding those ... very few maps show them,” Petersen said. Just south of the new Oregon Trail driving tour sign are the signs marking the trails and the Pony Express route.