With riders traveling at an average pace of 10 miles per hour around the clock, the 1966-mile route passed through eight modern-day states in 10 days. (When the Pony Express began, only Missouri ...

National Postal Museum, SI In 1860, an ill-fated Pony Express rider, whose name has been lost to history, was crossing the trackless wastes of Nevada when he vanished, likely killed by Indians.

Wages $25 per week. That was the want ad that enticed young men to ride with the Pony Express. Or maybe it wasn’t. There are a lot of myths wrapped around the Express, and it might well be this ...

Brown Hall in downtown Columbus that he and this year’s Miracle Riders will tap into the history of the Pony Express from the Old West, delivering cards with personal greetings to people as ...

Bill Miller, youngest member of the notorious Range Riders, gets job as pony express rider. Indians become dangerous on the war path. Bill forestalls plan of a bandit chief to rob mails while ...