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St. Joe

St. Joe

Pony-express-stablesPony Express Stables and National Museum. The ride starts from here.
patee-house-markerPatee (pronounced PAY-tee) House monument. The Pony Express office was located in this hotel.
Pony-express-riderHuge Pony Express Monument near Civic Center Park
Cobblestone-streetCobblestone–not brick–street leading to the St. Joe Riverwalk
Missouri-riverLooking upstream at the Missouri River from Riverwalk.
Ebenezer-monumentMonument foe the ferry that took the first (and presumably other) Pony Express riders across the Missouri
Wyeth-hillView across the Missouri into Kansas, from the top of Wyeth Hill
CourthouseSt. Joe has a lot of very large buildings built of brick and stone. This is the county courthouse.
Presbyterian-churchOne of the many huge churches in town.
County-buildingYet another mammoth building, this one for County Administration.
muralSt. Joe was one of the major launching points for the west-coast bound emigrants in the 1840s-50s
Pony-espressoSeems kind of inevitable, right?

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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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