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Joseph Alfred "Jack" Slade, [1] (January 22, 1831 – March 10, 1864), was a stagecoach and Pony Express superintendent, instrumental in the opening of the American West and the archetype of the Western gunslinger. Born in Carlyle, Illinois, he was the son of Illinois politician Charles Slade and Mary Dark (Kain) Slade. [2]
As the Pony Express mail service existed only briefly in 1860 and 1861, few examples of Pony Express mail survive. Contributing to the scarcity of Pony Express mail is that the cost to send a 1 ⁄ 2-ounce (14 g) letter was $5.00 [37] at the beginning (equivalent to $170 in 2023 [38], or 2 1 ⁄ 2 days of semi-skilled labor). [17]
Despite only running for less than two years, [1] the Pony Express became steeped in western history and tales from the American frontier. [2] Journeys by horse were made carrying postal mail between Sacramento and St Joseph, close to Kansas City, with numerous stops between.
The 46th annual “re-ride” of the Pony Express re-lived how the private mail service once relayed thousands of letters between 700 riders along the nearly 2,000-mile-long Pony Express National ...
With sectional tensions on the rise, Majors and his colleagues proposed to deliver the mail over a central route through Salt Lake City, Utah and proposed doing it in 10 days, via a horse relay they called the Pony Express. [1] Alexander Majors House, 2007. By 1865, Majors sold out what little remained of his business and moved to Colorado.
The first re-ride of the Pony Express was held in 1923. 60 participants rode across the eight states that had originally made up the Pony Express trail: California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri. [1] [2] In April through October 1935, a Pony Express re-ride was held to commemorate the Pony Express' Diamond Jubilee.
The Pony Express completes its first westbound and eastbound deliveries between St. Joseph, Missouri and San Francisco, California. May 6: The kidnapping of two Paiute children by the white owners of a Pony Express station in what is now Nevada provokes a retaliatory raid in which five people are killed, beginning the Pyramid Lake War. [106] May 29
Indeed, coach Carl Easterling’s Pony Express “lived up to some of the pre-season reports,” as Mason wrote after that first game, what with at least 30 points in every quarter and eight ...