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Historic Pony Express Restaged for West United Celebration
Denver hosts Pony Express Memorial organizers planning a fall re enactment from Saint Jo to San Francisco August 20 to September 9 marking anniversaries of Sutter’s Mill gold discovery and the Overland Mail era. The event honors major riders and Buffalo Bill while detailing the original 1860s mail service and its record rides across 1906 miles of terrain.
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Alex Carlyle
Harry Hoff
Sacramento
Cal
Great American Desert
Pony Express
Mississippi
Pacific
Buffalo Bill
Saint Jo
San Francisco
Union of California
Mark Twain
Bret Harte
West
Sutter’s Mill
Butterfield
Overland Mail
Omaha
Mark Twain Memorial Association
Denver
Pony Express Memorial Association
James D. Phelan
California
Johnny Baker
Tarle Snelle
Reno
Pabaska Tepee
Cody Museum
Lookout Mountain
Cf Afl
Gordon W. Lillie
Bill
F. X. Aubrey
Plaza of
Santa Fe
N. M
Independence
Aubrey
Julesburg
Red Buttes
North Platte
Sweetwater
Rocky Ridge
Wild Bill” Hickok
Young Cody
Robert
Pony Bob) Haslam
Nevada
James Moore
Nebraska
Salt Lake
Sierras
St. Joseph
Fort Sumter
Buchanan
Lincoln
Panama
New York
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