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The Pony Express was a fast mail service crossing the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the High Sierras from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, from April 3, 1860 to October 1861. | The Pony Express was a fast mail service crossing the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the High Sierras from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, from April 3, 1860 to October 1861. | ||
*Additional Sources''' | |||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/548673 Kate B. Carter ''Riders of the Pony Express'' The Pony Express Mid-Century Memorial Commission of Utah, c197] | |||
*Myra V. Gormley, ''What Became of the Daring Young Men of the Pony Express'' Utah Genealogical Association Crossroads 2 #1 (December 2006): 2-9 FHL 973 D25gj v.2 no. 1 | *Myra V. Gormley, ''What Became of the Daring Young Men of the Pony Express'' Utah Genealogical Association Crossroads 2 #1 (December 2006): 2-9 FHL 973 D25gj v.2 no. 1 | ||
*Myra V. Gormley, '' Compiled List of Pony Express Riders'' Utah Genealogical Association Crossroads 2 #1 (December 2006): 10-12 FHL 973 D25gj v.2 no.1 | *Myra V. Gormley, '' Compiled List of Pony Express Riders'' Utah Genealogical Association Crossroads 2 #1 (December 2006): 10-12 FHL 973 D25gj v.2 no.1 | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1238780 Jacqueline Lewin & Marilyn Taylor, ''On the winds of destiny : a biographical look at Pony Express riders'' [St. Joseph, Missouri] : Platte Purchase Pub., c2000 FHL 978 D3L] | |||
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