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Around 1857, a man named Gerat Hollenberg and his wife, Sophia, built a modest wood-shingled house in present-day Kansas, four years before the territory became a state. The structure also served as a ...

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DENVER (KDVR) — Have you ever wanted to see the Pony Express operating as it once did in 1860? There’s a chance to do just that thanks to the National Pony Express Association. On Wednesday, July 11, ...

In May 2019, I set out from St. Joseph, Missouri, with two horses and a plan to ride 2,000 miles to Sacramento, California, along the Pony Express Trail. My book, The Last Ride of the Pony Express, is ...

There was an awful lot of distance between what had been the Western frontier — Missouri and Iowa — and the new Pacific coast states of California and Oregon. It could take three months or longer to ...