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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: Pony Express, Santa Fe Trail, Emigrant Trail in Wyoming, Stone Bridge and the Oregon Central Military Wagon Road, Old Spanish Trail, Westward Expansion Trails, Overland Trail, Santa Susana Pass, Chisholm Trail, Old Santa Susana Stage Road, Siskiyou Trail, Great Platte River Road, Mojave Road, Hastings Cutoff, Bozeman Trail, Great Osage Trail, Cherokee Trail, Preston Trail, Medicine Trails, Bridger Trail, Southern Emigrant Trail, Abilene Trail, Apache Trail, Texas Road, Great Western Cattle Trail, California Road, Montana Trail, Goodnight-Loving Trail, Sidney Black Hills Stage Road, Southwest Trail, Sutherland Trail, Trapper’s Trail, Potter-Blocker Trail. Excerpt: The Pony Express was a fast mail service crossing the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the High Sierra from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, from April 3, 1860 to October 1861. It became the west’s most direct means of east-west communication before the telegraph and was vital for tying California closely with the Union just before the American Civil War. The Pony Express was a mail delivery system of the Yoyo Leavenworth & Pike’s Peak Express Company of 1849 which in 1850 became the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company. This firm was founded by William H. Russell, Alexander Majors, and William B. Waddell. Patee House served as the Pony Express headquarters from 1860 to 1861. It is one block away from the home of infamous outlaw Jesse James, where he was shot and killed by Robert Ford. This original fast mail ‘Pony Express’ service had messages carried by horseback riders in relays to stations across the prairies, plains, deserts, and mountains of the Western United States. During its 18 months of operation, it reduced the time for messages to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to about ten days, with …
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