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Pony Express

speedy relay mail-carrying system of 1860s. [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 276]

Pony Express

relay mail service during frontier days. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2190]
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Tallgrass, which owns and operates Pony Express and is developing both the Seahorse Pipeline (Seahorse) and Plaquemines Liquids Terminal (PLT) projects, provides extensive downstream market access for PRB producers.
I learned a lot working at Pony Express under the tutelage of the late Joe Elli-thorpe and Ray Howser.--Jeff
Pending successful conclusion of Pony Express Pipeline's open season, the Tallgrass Grasslands Terminal will serve as a new pipeline origin for the Pony Express Platteville Extension.
Caption: Clydesdale plant with Pony Express mobile silo (right).
Criteria: Enhanced with the inclusion of illustrations, maps, and appendixes of riders and relay stations (some of which still exist), "The Saga of the Pony Express" is a meticulously researched and deftly written chronicle that is as entertaining as it is informed and informative.
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Rather, what looms through interstices in the net is a worldwide spying machine of post-Orwellian proportions, and it's no good telling me, with a smile that is half condescension and half reassurance, that perlustration was very likely the fate of many a letter delivered by the Pony Express.
On the left side of the barrel is marked "Russel, Majors and Waddell Pony Express Presentation Model." On the barrel, right side, is "Pony Express Presentation Model Colt .45 Peacemaker." Under the cylinder on the frame is the serial number PE2XX.
West from Salt Lake: Diaries from the Central Overland Trail chronicles the journey of one Captain James Simpson, who in 1859 forged a more direct trail between Salt Lake City and California by taking a desert route, which the Pony Express and others adopted.
Then she describes other destinations nearby, such as the North Snake Range and Mount Moriah Wilderness, the Pony Express Trail and Callao, and Burbank Hills and Garrison.
1860: The Pony Express service began, with light (usually teenage) riders galloping in relays from St Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento in California, with fresh horses every 10 miles.
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