This Smithsonian Snapshot celebrates the April 3, 1860, anniversary of the Pony Express. In 1860, a relay system of horses began to carry mail across the 1,966-mile “central route” between St. Joseph, ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — The Pony Express ran for less than two years, but the legacy of the then-revolutionary mail service lives on in St. Joseph. The Pony Express National Museum at 914 ...

The Pony Express may be coming through your town with mail. According to the National Pony Express Association, its annual re-ride kicked off this week. It will take riders from Sacramento, California ...

There was an awful lot of distance between what had been the Western frontier — Missouri and Iowa — and the new Pacific coast states of California and Oregon. It could take three months or longer to ...