Across the West are remnants of historic trails, wagon roads, emigrant routes and what’s left of dreams in dry places. In the 19th century, Americans traversed our country on horseback and in wagons, ...

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 ...

Pony Express is a high-energy relay race on horseback, a signature event at black rodeos in Oklahoma, where it was founded. The best way to describe it is like a track relay—only on horses. “Eight ...

In the 1970s, our neighbor, Hazel Castevens, told us that in the 1880s, the Wells Fargo Pony Express dropped off the mail at what today is the west end of the Crescenta-Cañada Family YMCA parking lot, ...

MARYSVILLE, Kan. (KSNW) — The Pony Express will ride again, at least for 10 days in June. The Pony Express was an express mail delivery service that traveled between St. Joseph, Missouri and ...

Standing beneath a tangled canopy of highway overpasses at the edge of a muddy bluff, I watched the Missouri River churn below me. Its murky water rolled relentlessly onward, folding into eddies as it ...

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A statue by Avard Fairbanks at This Is the Place Heritage Park, on display as the park celebrated the Pony Express' 150th anniversary. | Scott G. Winterton, Deseret News A look back at local, national ...

Pony Express is a high-energy relay race on horseback, a signature event at black rodeos in Oklahoma, where it was founded. The best way to describe it is like a track relay—only on horses. “Eight ...