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As the Pony Express mail service existed only briefly in 1860 and 1861, few examples of Pony Express mail survive. Contributing to the scarcity of Pony Express mail is that the cost to send a 1 ⁄ 2-ounce (14 g) letter was $5.00 [37] at the beginning (equivalent to $170 in 2023 [38], or 2 1 ⁄ 2 days of semi-skilled labor). [17]
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Pony Express, William Henry Jackson, +3 FP category for this image Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Diagrams, drawings, and maps/Maps Creator William Henry Jackson (images) and Howard R. Driggs (text); restored by Crisco 1492. Support as nominator-- — Crisco 1492 06:01, 3 June 2013 (UTC) Support That's right, that's the Overland Trail. Bierstadt ...
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The Pony Express national President Pam Dixon-Simmons galloped into Old Sacramento and came to a hard stop as the final rider to complete the relay of the 10-day long journey from St. Joseph ...
Pleasant Grove House Pony Express Station is a historical building in Rescue, California built in 1850. The site of the Pleasant Grove House Pony Express Station is a California Historical Landmark No. 703. The historical building was built to house California Gold Rush 49 miners traveling to find gold and stake a claim.
Despite only running for less than two years, [1] the Pony Express became steeped in western history and tales from the American frontier. [2] Journeys by horse were made carrying postal mail between Sacramento and St Joseph, close to Kansas City, with numerous stops between.
Short title: POEX Map; Date and time of digitizing: 06:18, 19 August 2016: File change date and time: 06:18, 19 August 2016: Software used: Adobe Illustrator CC 2015 (Macintosh)