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Last Performance of Buffalo Bill’s Show

Did you know that right here in Julesburg was where Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show had its last performance before the banks foreclosed on it?

Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express

It is highly unlikely that the Pony Express would be so well remembered had not Buffalo Bill so glamorized it; in common opinion Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express are indissolubly linked. -DON…

Pony Express as an Inspiration

Saved from failure and forgetting, the story of the Pony Express would become a great saga, a heroic episode in the opening of the American West. It would become a…

Pony Express in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show

Just as the show always began with "The Star Spangled Banner," it included prominently the Pony Express. And no one, from penniless orphans in Chicago and London, allowed in free because Buffalo Bill…

Reasons for Pony’s Popularity

Pony Express riders symbolized not only rugged strength and courage, but the anachronism of organic workers—animals and people—and their heroic endurance as they prepared the ground for the machine. . . . As the…

Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express Legend

In the meantime, Buffalo Bill's Wild West show became the primary keeper of the pony legend. By the 1890s, when William Lightfoot Visscher began gathering material for his history of the Pony…

Dearth of Material on Pony Express

What if you wanted to know more about those Pony Express adventures? The problem was there was not much to read on the subject other than Buffalo Bill's autobiography and show programs.…

Pony Express in Buffalo Bill’s Show

Like every other frontier reeenactment in the Wild West show, the Pony Express was a chapter in the life of its hero and his country. Before audiences of thousands, the…

Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express

Ever since 1879, when William Cody first published his life story, this childhood saga has been a favorite of the American public. The Wild West show reprised it over and over again,…

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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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