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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: August 10, 2012
Caption:
Pony Express | Additional Description:
Russell - Majors – Waddell
Founders and Operators
April 1860 – March 1861
Overland Mail Co.
(Wells Fargo – National – Adams – American)
Controllers and Operators
[Russell, Majors & Waddell
subcontractors east of Salt Lake City]
March 2, 1861 to October 26, 1861
Coast to coast clipper ship 90 days - Via Panama 30 days - Vanderbilt via Nicaragua 25 days - Overland Mail Stage 23 days - Pony Express 10-13 days
Long rides: “Pony Bob” Haslam, 380 miles - Wm. F. Cody, 384 miles. Young riders: David Jay – 14yrs. Kansas 1860 - Wm. F. Cody – 14 yrs. Wyoming 1861
190 stations, 120 riders, 1966 miles, record time 7 days 17 hours with President Lincoln’s Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861
Operated nineteen months
Submitted: August 17, 2012, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p215774
File Size: 2.657 Megabytes
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