Show VP AW M AF oab x 4 vad z 4 U w 0 6 gt g I 1 U k I 1 0 N k av F ax 5 aa A I 1 pa KA M 4 aza mayx fibbe d I 1 q J 0 t JOS Is to be pony express re staged this fall 03 years after alex carlyle on a nice brown mare r raced need out of st joseph mo headed west and harry iloff on a spirited halfbreed broncho sprinted C cal al out of 0 sacramento headed east the entire population of boti both cities massed along the street heads off and the and yelling their whole country watching this spectacular race against time across the 1900 1960 miles aniles of 0 the great american desert la Is to bo be to say the pony express re resto staged ged looks like a bad of language since it was a horseback mail service established on purpose to beat the stage just the same the announcement stir the blood of no Is one to the west between the mississippi and the pacific nearly nil all of the pony rany express riders have lilt hit the long trail but the story of the winning of the west without them would be like the wild west show with guf buffalo falo bill out tho 1023 1923 pony P express riders will leave saint jell jo about august 29 09 2 and will finish at san ban francisco september 8 9 the anniversary of the admission to the union of california there will also be a mark twain mid bret harte e celebration ele bration in the west this f fall all this year Is the seventy fifth anniversary of the discovery of gold at Sut lers mill september 15 Butter fields overland mall was established septem ber 13 tho the first transcontinental railroad train left omaha for san francisco so there Is likely to be a grand combination celebration with an it evolution of transportation exhibit with covered wagon stage pony express railroad train and airplane all in tile the picture and cities along tile the central rente taking part buffalo bills grave Ati audway sway representatives of seven western states and of the mark twain memorial association met the other datin day ilu denver and organized the pony Fx express press memorial association former senator james D phelan of california la Is president johnny baker of denver vice president nod and earle of reno manager ind and then johnny baker buffalo ahls foster son and right hand man champion rifle and shotgun shot of the world aind manager of kabaska tepee the cody museum established by the I 1 t city of denver took them all up on I 1 lookout mountain to tile tho grave of the most famous of all the pony express I 1 riders after maj gordon W lillie pawnee balij rill had placed a wreath in memory of ills old con comrade trade tile the visitors went on the great balcony of the museum and iced long out over the historic ground of which a hint Is given in the accompanying photograph denver denler is down on the plains ten miles away with field glasses the visitors could soo see into byor wyoming hing kansas and Ne brala almost under foot seemed where buffalo bill did hla his first riding ond and the union pacific where in 18 mont months las 1807 1907 8 he killed 4 buffalo with lucreita Luc retla Bor borgia bolgla gla for the railroad roil rall road builders incidental the artist has ban token taken a liberty with ws and shown buffalo A 6 bills grave not as it Is but as it will be when his aque equestrian atrian statue Is set up the pony express riders did some wonderful riding but as a matter of fact the record performance in that age and country of hard riding horsemen the record of all men it Is probably history was the ride of F X in 1851 from the plaza of santa fe N M to the public square of independence mo a distance of about miles infested by hostile across a sandy desert indians in five lays days and 19 10 hours aubrey rode alone killed several of his best horses was vita never oft off a fast gallop during tile tho whole ride fell fainting from his saddle lay in a stupor for 48 hours and waked up none the worse with a wager of 1000 won some record rides bufan buffalo lo 10 bill was the boy wonder he began in of the pony express april 1800 at the ago afe of fourteen ile he first rode 45 miles out of julesburg julesberg Ju lesburg with the stations 15 miles apart and three changes of horses after two months he be was assigned to a 70 mile run between red buttes on the north platte of the sweetwater crossings to the three a bad indian country ono day three crossings his into he be galloped home station and found that his relief had bad been killed so lie he rode on to rocky ridge 85 miles away and made the round trip of miles without a mishap and on time a record perform afterward the indians shortly ance and drove off so eo killed hill BO many riders that the pony express ponies many white while wild discontinued had to be handed bill hichok who once single inoa cody killed ten de desperadoes juu the indians four chased men and forty returned pd ride into the hills and return days horses and indian with their own and several scalps ponies pony bob haslam at the robert plute war in nevada november time of the of 1800 1860 made an emergency ride of mileson mi lesof desert route with four within rest of tillie nine hours one of schedule time then after a hours houra lie he went on to cover rest of 00 10 minutes his own route of miles moore had a run james nebraska on one run western across in 11 hours and distance made the he be without rest went back in the same in 22 hours time miles immortality r express deserves the pony lesson of american as an object bonc io nc efficiency nm airing li ring pluck I 1 of rn russell asell majors advertisement the and stage the famous waddell and the heading carried freighting ferrn firm eight days by son san fran francisco ir co in vo to overland ca california and central the this was explained pike reak peak express carried telegrams that to mean between st joseph by pony express would reach the coast cast placerville erville and letters would be that and irk in eight days between st joseph carried in ten days I 1 the rhe missouri city and san francisco there west farthest end was tho the rail was boat service between and san francisco salt lako lake was tho the only city between the sierras and tho the missouri american urge for speed the pony express route was waa fag J OGG miles the first express out of st joseph made the trip in ten days later the time was reduced to an overage of nine days the news of fort sumter was carried in eight days and 14 hours Bucha buchanana nans last message was rushed across in seven days and 19 hours Lincol ns inaugural address placed the record at seven days and 17 hours the riders were young light and picked men of character under solemn pledge of good behavior each carried revolver and bollei L nife knife tho the letters lettera 1 ak 1 were on tissue paper the pouches never weighed over ove 20 pounds and the postage was 5 a letter in advance the riders were paid about a mouth month the horses were usually halfbreed half breed california mustangs of them unbroken many riders rodo rode tho the pony express miles and lost one mail the service ice terminated with the completion of telegraph line october the transcontinental 24 1801 1861 lasted eighteen the pony express months took in and paid out what Is 18 more it was never then was its what expected to pay there Is no room why and wherefore to explain lu ill detail hereto here well the one factor of course was american urge for speed the known discovery of gold in 1848 peopled california almost over night by 1860 tont bodies of u auci amerl 4 merl there were two great separated by 2000 miles most ot of tins cans c the mall mail went by way of panama york to from new twenty two days A railroad was the fean francisco an of every the hope hunger the prayer settler west of 0 the missouri breaking trail trad for rail struggle between the the prewar north and south was neals the big factor the stronger in congress south being the pigeonholed pigeon holed in 1855 a bill tor for a subsidized pony express government central route st joseph oyer over the fort laramie Lar amle south kearney fort lake city and sacramento salt pass contract by 1 in 18 1858 r S congress southern let it a mall mail route fort the stage over 2760 mites tucson smith el paso faso northerners 25 day schedule on a coming i 0 tn the 0 with an aa c eye ye to establishing railroad countered by oriental to demonstrate express the pony central route was t that hot the then came the round open the year of the north in control war with civil the mall service was transferred congress central route 11 then to the caroo came the railroad and wherefore of phd why the so 61 was largely to of 1861 1800 burtess pony the central break the trail over of IMO 1870 route for the railroad |