Pony Express History

The United States Postal Service and the Pony Express are similar in many ways, but also have their differences. The Pony Express was the way people in the 1800's got their mail, but was retired when telegraph lines started to sprout in the American West. Our United States Postal Service is how people now receive their letters, packages, and cards.

Express, was established by three business partners. It was a relay race on horses from station to station, carrying mail bags as they went. Being a dangerous job, it required the bravest and most experienced riders they could find. The founding of The Pony Express was a useful

The pony express started on April 3, 1860 . Then , the route was about 2,000 miles but in total it was 1,966. To get through the whole route would take 10 days. The founders of the pony express were Alexander Majors , William B. Waddell. $5 per half ounce was the price of a letter when the pony express first started . After, July 1861 it changed to $1. The pony express ended on October 26, 1861.

This service was founded by Alexander Majors,William H. Russell, and William B. Waddell. The plans for the Pony Express were put into action on April 3,1860 as soon as men under 18 from St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California left simultaneously to join this job. The

Amid the 1800’s, America was experiencing a period of development known as the Industrial Revolution. America was in its first century of being an autonomous and creative nation. One of the greatest commitments to this huge innovative progression was the foundation of the Transcontinental Railroad. The westward expansion designed to be the key to a nation-building project and a change for the United States.[1] The Pacific Railroads cleared the path in which built the remaining railroad tracks connecting the West to the Midwest and East. The Union Pacific Company built from Omaha, Nebraska towards the west meeting up with the Central Pacific Company who started building from Sacramento, California.[2] This

1. written messages do not have to be delivered on the spur of the moment as they can be edited and revised several times before they are sent so that the content can be shaped to maximum effect 2. written communication provides a permanent record

American Experience: Transcontinental Railroad. The railroad was a very big accomplishment in America's history. Transcontinental Railroad showed more then anything America's persistence, intellectual advancement, and above all else, Courage. This accomplishment came with many hardships and many sacrifices as well as achievements. While this accomplishment shows the good traits of America like drive and courage, It also reveled the darker traits of America, like betrayal, inequality, and most of all, greed. This paper will go over, How the Transcontinental Railroad was set into motion, the construction of the railroad and how it was used.

J.A. Mulkey, a lone cowboy, looking for a claim to set, was the start to a small town. He set a claim Northeast of Leedey on the Mckenzie Flats right by the Chisholm Trail. In 1895, Mulkey started a post office out of his half dugout house, with cedar logs. In 1898 or 99 Sam Stout moved the post office to his grocery store west of the original site. The post office was moved once again, in 1911, to its present site two miles south of Camargo on the east side of the road. Soon the little post office turned into Trail, a booming town in western Oklahoma, full of nesters and cowboys.

The post office was commissioned in 1868 at a log cabin built just east and north of the present town of Elmwood by David McCaig, who suggested that it be known to residents as Elmwood because of

"The United States Postal Service and the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association are time honored institutions that provide a “post office on wheels” to the American public on a day‐to‐day basis. With the first rural delivery established in 1896, a century of evolution has changed the rural carrier position to what it is today. (NRLCA)

Throughout history Nevada has been an outstanding state giving it residents the best it has to offer, as it still does today in the 1850’s it was no exception.

Email is also an effective communication as it can be accessed immediately and is written down for future reference. However this type of communication is relying on technology which can be disrupted or unavailable at times and could cause delays.

From its humble roots as a family newspaper distribution business using horse drawn carts from the first newspaper distribution warehouse, expanding by taking advantage of the spread of the rail network for both distribution and later book stalls in the stations which, in turn spread to form the company we all now recognise as W H Smith.

As communication has evolved from Ancient times of cravings in rocks to pictograph, ideograms and alphabets to 1500 -1800 where printing was invented. Now for the 19th through the 21st Century communications is far more efficient from postage to radio broadcasting to internet which has become an important form of communication.

Since the beginning of time, people have always been looking for means of communication, but a way to communicate in a fast and easy way. In earlier times, Egyptians carved on rocks, leaving records for the next civilization. The Incans of South America knotted several colored pieces of string in a specific pattern and had a messenger run to the next village to deliver it. Many wrote messages on paper to be delivered by a messenger and some simply sent a messenger to deliver the message orally. Of course, there were many problems with these means of communication. If one just sent a messenger, it was easy for the messenger to lose communication in the traveling process, or one could misplace a written message. And of course these messages