Pony Express Relay Station
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
Pony Express Relay Station
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Capture/faa Watermark Will Not Be On Your Finished Photograph.
Description
The Pony Express was a mail service delivering messages, newspapers, mail, and small packages from St. Joseph, Missouri, across the Great Plains, over the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada to Sacramento, California, by horseback, using a series of relay stations. One of those stations is marked here on the North Platte River near Register Cliffs close to Guernsey, Wyoming.
During its 18 months of operation, the Pony Express riders reduced the time for messages to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to about 10 days. From April 3, 1860, to October 1861, it became the West's most direct means of east - west communication before the telegraph was established and was vital for tying the new state of California with the rest of the country.
Image copyright 2014 Jon Burch Photography
For further reading about the Pony Express, please check out Christopher Corbetts book "Orphans Preferred".
http://www.orphanspreferred.com/
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July 28th, 2014
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