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7 unusual facts about Pony Express


Ii Naosuke

Accounts of the dramatic event were sent via ship across the Pacific to San Francisco and then sped by Pony Express across the American West.

Kim Young-oh

Originally highly successful in South Korea, they tell of the adventures of Banya, a speedy, wild and savvy teen-age hero working for the Gaya Desert Post Office with its motto "Fast. Precise. Secure." with all the romance of the unstoppable Pony Express of the American wild west.

Lander County, Nevada

Created in 1861, Lander County sprang forth as the result of a mining boom on the Reese River, along the old pony express line; taking a considerable portion of Churchill and Humboldt counties with it.

Pioneer City

The park was opened on Memorial Day weekend 1966 by photography studio magnate Myron M. "Mike" Weiss, Sr. as a built-to-scale Dodge City, Kansas, complete with a saloon, general store, Pony Express office, opera house and casino, undertaker, and barber shop, highlighted by cowboy actors who staged gunfights at high noon.

Robert Marcellus Stewart

Governor Stewart championed the founding of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad in northern Missouri, which resulted in the creation of the Pony Express and the rise of Kansas City, Missouri as a metropolitan region.

Robert Totten

His last directing work was in 1990 in a segment of "The Man Behind the Badge" of ABC's The Young Riders, loosely based on the Pony Express.

St. Joseph News-Press

The Gazette was the only newspaper to be sent west on the first ride of the Pony Express.


Motorbike roller coaster

Pony Express Knott's Berry Farm, Buena Park, California, in a twist on the once famous Motorcycle Chase of Indian Motorcycles on a Steeplechase roller coaster, now sports a Zamperla Motocoaster styled as horses.

Mound House, Nevada

The famed Pony Express (1860-1861) once had a stop here, now commemorated by a Historical Marker located on the grounds of the Moonlite BunnyRanch legal brothel.


see also

Frontier Pony Express

Frontier Pony Express is a 1939 American film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers.

John Fry

Johnny Fry (1840–1863), first "official" westbound rider of the Pony Express

Joseph Slade

Joseph Alfred Slade, "Jack" Slade (1831–1864), stagecoach and Pony Express superintendent

Liz Anderson

Casey was a member of the Sheriff's Posse, which was going to take part in the National Centennial Pony Express Celebration.

Ruby Valley Pony Express Station

The Ruby Valley Pony Express Station, located at 1515 Idaho St. in Elko, Nevada, was built in 1860 in Ruby Valley, Nevada.