Pony Express Rider Bibliography
Interest in individual Pony Express riders began in the late 1940s and early 1950s, when genealogists, antiquarians, and amateur and professional historians conducted research to determine such questions as who…
Oversized Pony Express Bibles
It is not known how many, if any, were given to riders in this 1860-1861-time period from the company. Many twentieth century writers claimed that all riders were given a…
Pony Express Bible
Among Joe Nardone’s gifts to the Library is an original “Pony Express Bible.” It is 5–7/8 inches high, 4 inches wide, and 2–1/8 inches thick, and exceedingly rare. Two thousand…
Reason for the Founding of the Pony Express
At this point in his career Russell revealed the fact that he possessed a keen instinct for advertising values and methods. In this he was at least half a century…
Purpose of the Pony Express
Forty-five years later Alexander Majors said that Russell, Majors & Waddell took over the Express Company to protect its own and Russell's credit. While this was true, there was far more to…
Winter Over the Central Route
One of the most damaging arguments put forward against [the Central Route] was that it could not be traveled in the winter time. . . . The following May {Leavenworth & Pikes…
Deficit of the Leavenworth Pikes Peak Company
From the very beginning of the Leavenworth & Pike's Peak Express Company, Majors and Waddell watched it with forebodings of disaster. In this they were justified, for after about nine months of…
Reason for the Pony Express
The reason that the Pony Express was organized is of far more importance than the question of who conceived the idea for it. In attempting to explain that reason, the history of…
Russell’s Innovation
The organization he perfected surpassed anything of the kind ever known, even that of Genghis Khan, for efficiency, speed, and regularity. These things stand out all the more clearly when it is…
Historic Examples of Pony Express
The idea of a courier carrying messages on horseback over long distances was old when Columbus pointed the prows of his tiny vessels toward the Wes tern Hemisphere. In the…
Whose Idea Was the Pony Express
It is the purpose of this article to discuss one of these questions, with the hope of shedding a little light upon it and of giving credit where credit is due. That…
Questions About the Pony Express
One of the first things the student of the Pony Express discovers is that numerous controversial—perhaps unanswerable—questions concerning it exist. Among these are how and with whom the idea originated, who the first…
Importance of the Pony Express
One of the principal patrons of the service was the English government, the official communications of which were, as a rule, forwarded by this route. A report of the operations of the English squadron in…
Cause of Express Riders’ Deaths
One of the greatest dangers encountered by the pony-express riders was from immigrants and others who mistook them for Indians. In those days it was shoot first and investigate afterward, provided the shooter survived…
Pony Express Riders
All the riders were young men selected for their nerve, light weight, and general fitness. No effort was made to uniform them, and they dressed as their individual fancy dictated, the usual costume being…