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Photographer: Duane Hall
Taken: May 30, 2013
Caption: Pony Express Route and Letters
Additional Description: Caption: Pony Express trail across Nevada. In letters marked like these, Pony Express riders carried new of Abraham Lincoln's election, the succession of the Southern States, and rumors of civil war to the information-hungry West. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Philatelic Classics Society.)
Submitted: July 29, 2013, by Duane Hall of Abilene, Texas.
Database Locator Identification Number: p248777
File Size: 0.164 Megabytes

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