An update on the identification and marking of the Pony Express Trail will be addressed at the annual meeting of the Lake Tahoe Historical Society. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. March 20 in the ...

In May 2019, I set out from St. Joseph, Missouri, with two horses and a plan to ride 2,000 miles to Sacramento, California, along the Pony Express Trail. My book, The Last Ride of the Pony Express, is ...

Before the transcontinental telegraph was completed, the Pony Express mail service provided the most direct means of communication between the settled eastern states and the burgeoning West. The Pony ...

As he rode south on a Carson City street Tuesday, Pony Express rider Jason Royer let out a holler and brought his horse Moose to a stop at the intersection with Third Street, to exchange the historic ...

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SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS MADE. DRIVERS ON PONY EXPRESS TRAIL IN POLLOCK PINES SHOULD EXPECT DELAYS THIS WEEK. THE COUNTY IS REMOVING TREES TO CLEAR SPACE FOR SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS ALONG THE BUSY THOROUGHFARE ...

A Pony Express rider, decked out in blue jeans, bright red shirt, yellow bandana and black cowboy hat, made his way north on Curry Street at a gallop much to the excitement of about 50 onlookers as ...

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In the Pony Express National Museum, which had almost 40,000 visitors last year and just completed an upgrade, I scanned old photos of riders David Jay (who, with his droopy mustache, looked like ...

RENO, Nev. – Jan Bennett endured food poisoning, hail and near misses with tornado weather on her solo bicycle ride across the entire 2,220-mile Pony Express Trail from St. Joseph, Missouri, to ...

A sign for the Historic Pony Express Trail in front of the Toquima Mountains outside Austin, Nevada. milehightraveler/Getty Images Standing beneath a tangled canopy of highway overpasses at the edge ...

POLLOCK PINES — More than a year after five kids were hit by a van while crossing the street, progress is being made on safety improvements along Pony Express Trail in Pollock Pines. In May 2023, five ...