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Pony...Express
The Pony Express was a short-lived but storied American express mail service. Using relays of horse-mounted riders between Missouri and California the service was for 18 months the (wild) west's most direct means of east–west communication being much faster than prevailing stagecoach operations. At initial set-up in the winter of 1860 the undertaking utilised 80 riders and 400 horses, the riders mounts were selected to be below a certain height (in hands) and a certain weight to ensure fleetness of foot and agility and consequently rendering the name 'Pony' Express particularly befitting. Ultimately the service was rendered obsolete with the introduction of the transcontinental telegraph.
Pony...Express
The Pony Express was a short-lived but storied American express mail service. Using relays of horse-mounted riders between Missouri and California the service was for 18 months the (wild) west's most direct means of east–west communication being much faster than prevailing stagecoach operations. At initial set-up in the winter of 1860 the undertaking utilised 80 riders and 400 horses, the riders mounts were selected to be below a certain height (in hands) and a certain weight to ensure fleetness of foot and agility and consequently rendering the name 'Pony' Express particularly befitting. Ultimately the service was rendered obsolete with the introduction of the transcontinental telegraph.