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Old Pony Express Re enacted Revival Of Historic Route
A large public celebration in St Joseph Missouri marks the revival of the Pony Express with 140 cowboys and cavalrymen relaying mail from St Joseph to Sacramento and San Francisco. The event commemorates the original 1860 line, its record speeds, and the role in developing overland communication and the telegraph.
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St. Joseph
Missouri
Coolidge
Capitol
Calvarymen
United States Army
Sacramento
San Francisco
Pony Express
William F
Buffalo Bill) Cody
Topeka
Julesburg
Union Pacific
Denver
Salt Lake City
Reno
Carson City
Placerville
Cal
Bacramento
Ft.Kearner
Platte River
Platte
Lodge Pole Creek
8Dney
Thirty-mile Ridge
Mud Springs
Court House Rock
Chimney Rock
Scottsbluff
Ft. Laramie
Sverrone
Missouri River
Pacific Coast
Atlantic
Union Pacific Railroad
Overland Telegraph
California
District of
Columbian
R. F. Ficklin
Russell, Majors & Waddell
William Gwin
Congress
Genghis Khan
Chinese Tartary
Marco Polo
Europe
Ficklin
Times
Gwin
New York
New Orleans
Isthmus
Panama
Butterfield Stage Line
Overland Mail
Oper
William Russell
Russell
Overland Mall
Western
Sacremento
Ae G
Jim) Faust
Howard Egan
Boliver Roberts
Western Division
Iowa
Kimball
Saltoke City
Jack Slade
Virginia City
Mont
Senator Gwin
New York Herald
St. Louis Republican
Central
Pikes Peak
East
Central Overland California and
Pacific
St. Toe
Buchanan
St Joseph
The
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