Pony Express Days is riding back into town this year. The popular McKinleyville event returns soon after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 health crisis. “The McKinleyville Chamber of Commerce is ...
The Pony Express only lasted 18 months, but the mail delivery service remains one of the most enduring icons of the American West — its story told in dime novels and in Westerns like the 1990s TV show ...
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, ...