(the) Pony Express

(the) Pony Express
a US mail service in the ↑Old West, using riders and horses (not ponies). It operated from April 1860 to October 1861, between St Joseph, ↑Missouri, and Sacramento, ↑California, a distance of 1 966 miles/3 163 kilometres, which the riders could complete in 10 days by changing horses at regular stations along the way. ↑Buffalo Bill was one of the riders. The service came to an end when a ↑telegraph line (= a device for sending messages on electric wires) was completed. The Pony Express National Historic Trail was established in 1992.

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