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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]
The Pony Express is a 1925 American silent Western film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. [1] The film was directed by James Cruze and starred his wife, Betty Compson, along with Ricardo Cortez, Wallace Beery, and George Bancroft. Prints of this film survive, and it has been released on DVD. [2] [3]
The Pony Express is an American silent fiction film [1] produced by Kalem Company and directed by Sidney Olcott with Sidney Olcott, Robert Vignola and Joe Santley in the leading roles. It was the first movie on the Pony Express .
Later the firm started a stagecoach company, the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company, with the hope of receiving a mail contract from Missouri to California. [6] Under charter from the Kansas legislature, the C.O.C. & P.P.E Company started an express mail business called the Pony Express which began operations on April 3 ...
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.
Alexander Majors (October 4, 1814 – January 13, 1900) was an American businessman, who along with William Hepburn Russell and William B. Waddell founded the Pony Express, based in St. Joseph, Missouri.
The Pony Express route for mail delivery by animals was demarcated into five divisions from west-to-east in the Sacramento Valley, the Sierra Nevada, the Great Basin, the Rocky Mountains, and the Great Plains:
Pony Express is a 1953 American Western film directed by Jerry Hopper, filmed in Kanab, Utah, and starring Charlton Heston as Buffalo Bill, Forrest Tucker as Wild Bill Hickok, Jan Sterling as a Calamity Jane-type character, and Rhonda Fleming. [2]