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The Pony Express Rides Again!

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by LizziT

It was fantastic, the Pony Express, wasn’t it? 400 horses, 120 riders, nearly two hundred stations and several hundred station keepers, water /feed carters and the like, through hostile territory, alkali deserts, and high mountains, to get mail across the continental USA in TEN DAYS! Unheard of! The mochila, that piece of leather with the …

20th Anniversary of the Pony Express Re-Ride is ON!

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by LizziT

Who’s excited! I wish I could be in the States right now! The Pony Express Re-Ride began today, from St. Joseph to Old Sacramento! Patrick Hearty is my Utah contact for my NEARLY- completed novel Express Desire. Photo above: Patrick and Joseph’s book. Photo to right: Joseph L. Hatch, left, and Patrick Hearty talk …