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The building was constructed in 1852. When the Pony Express began service in 1860, this building was selected by its operators as the western terminus of the service, whose eastern end was in St. Joseph, Missouri, more than 1,800 miles (2,900 km) away. [3] The building was also the first location of the California Supreme Court.
Pony Express Stables in St. Joseph, Missouri [15] The B.F. Hastings building in Sacramento, California, western terminus of the Pony Express In 1860, the roughly 186 Pony Express stations were about 10 to 15 miles (16 to 24 km) apart along the Pony Express route. [ 9 ]
Pony Express stations were generally easy targets for raids, often in remote locations with ample supplies and few residents. Due to lost personnel, stations, and horses the Pony Express was forced to suspend operations between Carson Valley and Salt Lake City through the end of June. The C.O.C. & P.P. Express Co. rebuilt the destroyed stations ...
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 ...
The TV special studies and pay tribute to the young men that risked their lives to delivery mail along the 2,000 mile route between California and Kansas, through the Western Frontier. It shares lesser-known facts and trivia about the Pony Express, from the horses, saddles, station houses that made the postal system work. [4]
The section of US-36 from Washington, Kansas to St. Joseph, Missouri is officially called the Pony Express Highway because it marks the starting section of the Pony Express. It crosses the Missouri River on the Pony Express Bridges. From the western junction with K-383 to the Missouri state line, US-36 is part of the National Highway System.
It was designated as the western terminus of the Pony Express. Later it became a terminus of the First transcontinental railroad, which began construction in Sacramento in 1863 and was financed by "The Big Four"—Mark Hopkins, Charles Crocker, Collis P. Huntington, and Leland Stanford. Both the American and especially Sacramento rivers were ...
Pony Express Historical Association, the not-for-profit organization that owns the historical Patee House (the headquarters of the Pony Express) Pony Express Museum, a transport museum in Saint Joseph, Missouri; Pony Express Region, a region of northwestern Missouri; Pony Express Stables, the eastern terminus of the Pony Express, now the home ...