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Pony Express advertisement Pony Express postmark, 1860, westbound The Pony Express was an American express mail service that used relays of horse-mounted riders between Missouri and California . It was operated by the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company .
The Pony Express is a 1925 American silent Western film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. [1] The film was directed by James Cruze and starred his wife, Betty Compson, along with Ricardo Cortez, Wallace Beery, and George Bancroft. Prints of this film survive, and it has been released on DVD. [2] [3]
The Pony Express is an American silent fiction film [1] produced by Kalem Company and directed by Sidney Olcott with Sidney Olcott, Robert Vignola and Joe Santley in the leading roles. It was the first movie on the Pony Express .
Later the firm started a stagecoach company, the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company, with the hope of receiving a mail contract from Missouri to California. [6] Under charter from the Kansas legislature, the C.O.C. & P.P.E Company started an express mail business called the Pony Express which began operations on April 3 ...
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.
Alexander Majors (October 4, 1814 – January 13, 1900) was an American businessman, who along with William Hepburn Russell and William B. Waddell founded the Pony Express, based in St. Joseph, Missouri.
William Hepburn Russell (1812–1872) was an American businessman. He was a partner, along with Alexander Majors and William B. Waddell, in the freighting firm Russell, Majors, and Waddell and the stagecoach company the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company which was the parent company of the Pony Express.
The Pony Express route for mail delivery by animals was demarcated into five divisions from west-to-east in the Sacramento Valley, the Sierra Nevada, the Great Basin, the Rocky Mountains, and the Great Plains: