It was a 1,966-mile route that operated for 18 months, linking St. Joseph, Mo., with California. This summer, riders again are retracing the Pony Express, to commemorate its 150th anniversary. And ...

SACRAMENTO-- In the middle of the night on Aug. 26, Steve Pool will pull on a red shirt and blue jeans, wake his horse, Bud, and make his way to the North Fork of the American River. The pair will ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) – Kansas tourism officials are celebrating the designation of the Pony Express Historic Byway this week. Kansas Tourism announced on April 8 the official designation of the ...

The Pony Express national President Pam Dixon-Simmons galloped into Old Sacramento and came to a hard stop as the final rider to complete the relay of the 10-day long journey from St. Joseph, Missouri ...

Most people who have driven the segment of U.S. Highway 50 from Sacramento to South Lake Tahoe have probably felt the frustration of slowing down to 35 mph thanks to traffic or icy roads. But in 1860, ...

Eight miles may not seem like a great distance to a motorist or bicyclist, but to pooped-out horses who raced daily over Echo Summit carrying bags of mail, the difference meant extra fuel-up time at ...

F. S. Bates has recently established a pony express route, from Westport and Clatskanie into the Nehalem Valley, making trips from each place into ...

The Pony Express may ultimately have been faster than some of the modern services from a U.S. Postal Service struggling against massive debt and the evil Internet. The result of the cutbacks in the ...

The Pony Express galloped into Carson Valley Wednesday. Riders were scheduled to leave Old Sacramento at 7 p.m. Tuesday and cross into Nevada at Fredricksburg at 2 p.m. Pony Express spokesman Larry ...