Pony Express
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Key facts
- Company type
- Express mail
- Industry
- Postal service
- Founded
- April 3, 1860 ; 166 years ago ( 1860-04-03 ) in St. Joseph, Missouri , United States
- Founders
- Alexander Majors , William Hepburn Russell , William Bradford Waddell
- Defunct
- October 26, 1861 ; 164 years ago ( 1861-10-26 )
- Fate
- Bankrupt
- Headquarters
- Patee House , St. Joseph, Missouri , United States
- Areas served
- St. Joseph, Missouri , Sacramento, California
- Owner
- Ben Holladay
- Parent
- Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- enterprise
- Subclass of
- post riders
- Country
- United States
- Continent
- North America
- Industry
- Image
- Pony-express-joseph.jpg
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- Commons category
- Pony Express
- topic's main category
- Category:Pony Express
- inception
- 1860-00-00
- native label
- Pony Express
- end time
- 1861-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1861-00-00
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
Pony Express advertisement Pony Express postmark, 1860, westbound
The Pony Express was an American express mail service that used relays of horse-mounted riders between Missouri and California. It was operated by the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pony Express” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.