A thrilling and truthful history of the pony express; or, Blazing the westward way, and other sketches and incidents of those stirring times . sm created by the inauguration of New York, eighteen from London, the Pony Express, the St. Joseph The race is to the swift. Free Democrat said in relation to this The expenses of the Pony Express novel method of carrying the news during the part of two years that it across the continent: was operated were, approximately, as Take down your map and trace follows: the footprints of our quadrupedantic Equipping the line Si00,000 animal: From St. Joseph, on
A thrilling and truthful history of the pony express; or, Blazing the westward way, and other sketches and incidents of those stirring times . sm created by the inauguration of New York, eighteen from London, the Pony Express, the St. Joseph The race is to the swift. Free Democrat said in relation to this The expenses of the Pony Express novel method of carrying the news during the part of two years that it across the continent: was operated were, approximately, as Take down your map and trace follows: the footprints of our quadrupedantic Equipping the line Si00,000 animal: From St. Joseph, on the Maintenance, $30,000 per Missouri, to San Francisco, on the ^, ^^V V ^,r 480,000 ^ , , ., . ., , M Nevada Indian War 7i,ooo Golden Horn-two thousand miles- Miscellaneous 45,000 more than half the distance across our boundless continent; through $700,000 Kansas, through Nebraska, by Fort While it is true that the receipts did Kearney, along the Platte, by Fort not reach as high as $1,000 per trip, Laramie, past the Buttes, over the in all they did not exceed $500,000, Rocky Mountains, through the nar- leaving a net loss of $200, CHAPTER VIFAMOUS RIDES AND RIDERS
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