The Pony Express, the horseback mail service that had provided the fastest means of communication between the eastern and western United States officially closes, after only one and one-half years of service, two days after the first Transcontinental Telegraph line is inaugurated.
The nearly 2,000-mile route, using a continuous relay of the best riders and horses, from St. Joseph, Missouri, to San Francisco, California, averaged ten days, while winter deliveries required twelve to sixteen days, approximately half the time needed by stagecoach. More
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