But getting mail across the continent took about three weeks.
The 1850s saw a population explosion in California, as settlers from the Oregon Trail and California gold rush flooded into the West. Before the Pony Express, moving information was a huge pain But also because it fits with our romantic ideas about the Old West. So why do we remember the Pony Express at all? Partly because it was a genuine breakthrough in mail delivery. "In the American memory, that man is still riding across the country," says Christopher Corbett, author of Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express. Oddly enough, though, most of us don't think of the Pony Express as a flash in the pan. "In The american Memory, That Man Is Still Riding." It was 155 years ago, but that first journey remains memorable today, even though the service only operated until October 1861 - closing just 81 weeks after it began, killed off by the telegraph and other factors. Near midnight on April 14, 1860, the mail reached its destination in San Francisco. The first mail delivered via the Pony Express was sent on Apwhen it left St. Keetley, Jay Kelley, Johnny Fry, Sy Macaulas, Sye McAulas, W.A.The Pony Express is a legendary service. Tags: "Pony" Bob Haslem, Alexander Carlyle, Bill Cates, Col. One who took up the challenge was William “Bill” Cates, a self-described “young fellow, craving excitement.” He was one of the last surviving members when he was profiled in the JBrooklyn Daily Eagle.
Must be expert riders, willing to risk death daily. One ad read: Wanted: Young, skinny, wiry fellows not over eighteen. It was not an easy gig, as riders faced Indian attacks, harsh elements and the slings and arrows of nature, and there was none of this be all you can be crap. The system especially helped link the rest of America to California, a state which had grown in importance in the previous decade, owing to the population explosion brought about by the gold rush. A Google Doodle just marked the 155th anniversary of the Pony Express, a hoof-bound American mail-delivery service that brought messages and news from Missouri westward in 1860-61, the days just before the transcontinental telegraph.
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