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"California instils a respect for meum and tuum [mine and thine] ; he had made a 'pile' at the diggings—you never meet a man who has been there and has not—and had lost…

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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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