Whatever the pay rate for riders, carrying the mail was highly dangerous work. They worked in a hard unsafe environment, where many of them suffered and/or were even killed by accidental occurrences…

"Billy Campbell commented about another item provided, 'Each rider at the outset was given a horn to blow as he approached the station. This was to warn the station keeper…

"Perhaps one of the most recognized 'documents' of the Pony Express is the advertisement for riders with 'orphans preferred.' It is the basis for comments by writers how orphans were…

"[N]o man wold be entrusted to carry the mail until he had signed this pledge: I do hereby swear, before the Great and Living God,that during my engagement, and while…

"[Russell, Majors & Waddell] immediately set to work, making careful plans for speeding and safeguarding the Pony Mail. They believed that both depended on the swiftness and endurance of relay…