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The Pony Express

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The Pony Express opened officially on April 3, 1860, when riders left simultaneously from St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California. The Pony Express began because people in the West wanted faster mail service. They had to wait six weeks for their mail to arrive by boat. Mail sent by stagecoach took about twenty-one days. The Pony Express delivered the mail in an average of ten days. The Pony Express used a relay system, each approximately two hundred forty miles long, where riders and horses were switched at one hundred fifty seven places along the way to Sacramento, California. The Pony Express employed about eighty deliverymen and had around four hundred to five hundred horses to carry these riders from one post to the next. Because teenagers weighed less than adults, most of the riders were teenagers. The horses could run faster carrying them. Though small in stature, their untarnished record proved them to possess the hearts of lions. Monthly pay for these riders was one hundred dollars, which were good wages at the time. Riders faced many dangers such as buffalo stampedes, robbers, Indian attacks, and all sorts of weather - rain, sleet, snow and hail. Although this method of carrying mail was dangerous and difficult, all but one delivery made it to its destination.

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21 January 2015

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