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Pony Express sites Public Forum Letter Updated: 12/05/2008 05:06:17 PM MST The Utah Historic Trails Consortium, a local organization that includes historic trails organizations and other organizations interested in preserving nationally significant historic trails, is concerned about the quick action taken by the Bureau of Land Management to lease large parcels of land in Utah's west desert. These parcels contain segments of the National Pony Express Trail and the important site of the Pony E… Continue

At the Ribbon Cutting at Eagle Mountain's Sweetwater Trail event on Thanksgiving Day November 27, 2008, there was a Pony Express Trail Re-enactment. This is appropriate because the newly completed trail is along the route of the original Pony Express Trail through Eagle Mountain.

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Scout leader exuberant by Marshall White Monday, November 24, 2008

Photo by Jessica Stewart / St. Joseph News-Press / Purchase this photo Alan Franks is the new executive director of the Pony Express Council of the Boy Scouts of America. The Pony Express Council is hoping a man with enthusiasm, personal energy, creative idea… Continue

Pony Express to carry 2008 holiday mail Posted: Tuesday, Nov 4th, 2008 BY: Vicki Hood, Editor Want your Christmas cards to have something special from Wyoming this year? The local chapter of the National Pony Express Riders will hold a special cancellation and delivery of cards from local communities for the 2008 Christmas season. Christmas cards will be collected in specially marked boxes located inside the main office of the United States Post Offices in Guernsey, Chugwater, Glendo,… Continue

About this book Read this book A Thrilling and Truthful History of The Pony Express or Blazing the Westward Way and other skecthes and incidents of those stirring tiems William L. Visscher Published by Rand, McNally & Co., 1908 CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER I. "The Great American Desert" 9 CHAPTER II. The Gold Fever 13 CHAPTER III. Winning the West 17 CHAP… Continue

http://books.google.com/books?id=C1DIXTf2PJMC&pg=PA9&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=0_0 The Westward Trail by William Lightfoot Wisscher from A Thrilling and Truthful History of the Pon Express Rising, the sun points westward, by the shadows of the trees. The shadows of the mountains, and of monuments and men, And westward is the trending from the continents and seas; From all the… Continue

About this book Preview this book Pony Express By Fred Reinfeld Published by U of Nebraska Press, 1973 ISBN 0803257864, 9780803257863 127 pages Recounts the exciting days when such men as Buffalo Bill Cody and Warren Upson risked hazardous conditions as riders for America's first cross-country mail system. Not all of the pages of this book ar… Continue

About this book Read this book The Overland Stage to California: Personal Reminiscences and Authentic History of the Great Overland Stage Line and Pony Express from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean By Frank Albert Root, William Elsey Connelley Published by Long's College Book Co., 1901 Original from the New York Public Library Digitized Feb… Continue

About this Book Read this book The Story of the Pony Express: An Account of the Most Remarkable Mail Service Ever in Existence, and Its Place in History By Glenn Danford Bradley Published by A. C. McClurg & co., 1913 Original from the University of Michigan Digitized Aug 24, 2006 175 pages The entire 175 page book is availble on Google Books… Continue

There are 27 Movies listed on the Internet Movie Database (IMDB.com) about the Pony Express

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1. Roy Rogers (Eyes of Texas (1948), Roy Rogers) aka "Pony Express Rider Roy Rogers" Other Results Titles (Exact Matches) (Displaying 6 Results) … Continue