The annual Pony Express Re-Ride is set to depart June 15, on its nearly 2,000-mile journey in honor of one of the most iconic ...

Eight miles may not seem like a great distance to a motorist or bicyclist, but to pooped-out horses who raced daily over the rugged Sierra carrying bags of mail, subtracting that distance meant extra ...

Eight miles may not seem like a great distance to a motorist or bicyclist, but to pooped-out horses who raced daily over Echo Summit carrying bags of mail, the difference meant extra fuel-up time at ...

Volunteer motorcyclists have been riding across Nebraska this week collecting letters from youth and families to raise ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Gary Lancaster is an expert on the original express mail — Pony Express. Between April 3, 1860, and Nov. 21, 1861, the storied riders braved punishing ...

Before there was Federal Express, there was the Pony Express. Here’s a brief history of how the mail got delivered using good old-fashioned horsepower. IMAGINE if you wrote a letter to a friend on ...

The Pony Express dispatched its first rider from St. Joseph, Mo., on April 3, 1860. It was an all-out, high-speed information delivery service that traversed nearly 2,000 miles of open, desolate and ...