Show I First of Riders for Pony Express Arrived in S. S L. L 80 Years Ag Ago Ago- Exactly 80 years a ago o Tuesday the first Pony ony Express rider rider bearing mail from the east galloped into Cit City Cit Utah's capital was was va not not- not th the not the modern thou mod em ern city on April 9 1860 that i ItIs it itis is today but to the dust-covered dust rider it appeared as an oasis in a desert It took 80 men and wiry horses to complete the mile 2000 trip between St. St Joseph Mo an anS and anor S Sacramento Cal east and wes west terminals of the line and eight days of rough riding were re re- re Glittering airliners have cut mall mail time for for the trip to about 12 hours but the deers of valor and the fierce riding of the Pony Express men l left ft a blaze of color on the pages of Americas America's history that no modern feat can obliterate After miles of hard ridIng riding riding rid rid- ing Indian fighting d dust s eating seating I travel by the boys of the Pony Express th the company was forced out of business by completion of the Pacific telegraph line ending ending- after 16 months a saga of picturesque esque appeal an and dari daring f l |