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Research Notes

Russell, Majors & Waddell Supports Border Ruffians

Their goods [emigrants from Ottowa, Illinois], consisting of plows, scythes, clothing, and in fact articles of agriculture and domestic use of all kinds, together with arms, were taken, and are now…

Horses for Buffalo Hunting

 . . . and, as I said before, they should not be made to travel faster than a walk unless absolutely necessary; neither should they be taken off the road…

Jornada

In some localities 50 or 60 miles, and even greater distances, are frequently traversed without water; these long stretches are called by the Mexicans "journdas," or day's journeys. There is…

Papers Stealing News Stories

One of the greatest problems of the Bulletin and associated newspapers at this time was how to prevent the less prosperous and less enterprising papers from stealing their costly news dispatches. The…

Effect of Paiute War on News Delivery

Indian raids in the summer of that year [1860] forced the pony to suspend operations for a month or more, and news of Lincoln's nomination, which took place on May 18, was…

Pony Express News Delivery

The Bulletin and Union had no sooner put their new system into working order than a further improvement in communication with the East made it more or less obsolete. This was the…

News in 17 Days

The two papers combined their resources to maintain correspondents in the more important cities of the East who were to wire important news to the telegraph point farthest west on the overland…

Butterfield and the News

From 1849 to 1858 the California press depended on the Panama Mail steamers for its eastern and European news. A great improvement came with the beginning of the overland mail service over…

Important Centers for News

The four important centers of news for the Pacific Coast press before the establishment of the overland mail in 1858 were Washington, New York, New Orleans, and Panama.

Steamship Mail and the News

A change came with the beginning in February, 1849, of the semimonthly steamer service of the Panama Mail Steamship Company between Panama and San Francisco. This first great improvement in communication with the…

Slow Mail Service to California

Newsgathering in California at this time was purely a haphazard affair and nearly all the news that was printed was of a local nature. The two papers were altogether dependent on the…

Black Camel

This side of Eternity, it is all one now. The last rider has departed for that bourne whence the Black Camel is the only steed. 

Upper California Crossing

The Upper Crossing of the South Fork of the Platte apparently went by several names including "Laramie Crossing," "Goodale's Crossing," "Morrell's Crossing," and later "Julesburg" or "Overland City," although Julesburg came to…

Slade at Hockaday

Under the Hockaday regime Joeeph A. Slade hnd served as agent of the division from the Upper Crossing of the Platte to South Pass. When the "C. O. C." was organized Benjamin…

Richard Burton

Richard F. Burton, English author, traveler, and explorer of India, Arabia, the Lake region of Central Africa (the discoverer of Lake Tanganyika), and explorer of the highlands of Brazil, was later knighted…

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Scott AlumbaughIn early March 2020, I decided to bikepack the length of the Pony Express Trail in Summer 2021, following the Pony Express Bikepacking Route, a nearly all off-road route created by Jan Bennett. You can learn more here >

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