This week, mail enthusiasts, horseback riders and onlookers will celebrate the Pony Express’ 163rd anniversary with a nearly 2,000-mile trek from Old Sacramento to St. Joseph, Missouri. The National ...

Out here, miles from nowhere, one doesn't need much of an imagination to visualize "Pony Bob" Haslam galloping by on his horse while being pursued by Indians. As the story goes, Haslam rode a record ...

Editor’s Note: Nevada 150 is a yearlong series highlighting the people, places and things that make up the history of the state. “Pony Bob” Haslam, we couldn’t forget you if we tried. Given the ...

MARYSVILLE, Kan. (KSNW) — The Pony Express will ride again, at least for 10 days in June. The Pony Express was an express mail delivery service that traveled between St. Joseph, Missouri and ...

Yorba Linda Don’t let their name fool you, the Royal Riders Pony Club of Yorba Linda aren’t mounting Shetlands ponies, but riding full-grown horses. The Pony Club is an international club that teaches ...

The National Pony Express Association will relay mail by horse and rider over the famed Pony Express Trail with the first riders taking the mail this morning. Since 1980, the Pollock Pines, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Gary Lancaster is an expert on the original express mail — Pony Express. Between April 3, 1860, and Nov. 21, 1861, the storied riders braved punishing ...

On May 9 in the column "This Week in Arizona History," it was stated that on "May 14, 1922: 60-year-old undelivered letters were found with the skeleton of a Pony Express carrier in the cellar of an ...

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 ...

SACRAMENTO-- In the middle of the night on Aug. 26, Steve Pool will pull on a red shirt and blue jeans, wake his horse, Bud, and make his way to the North Fork of the American River. The pair will ...

The Pony Express only lasted 18 months, but the mail delivery service remains one of the most enduring icons of the American West — its story told in dime novels and in Westerns like the 1990s TV show ...