Figures and Places Connected With The Pony Express, 1938
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AM1972.14.1K
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Figures and Places Connected With The Pony Express, 1938. There is a picture of a Pony Express rider. The title is Carrying the Mail From St. Joseph, Another picture is of the Marysville, KA Pony Express Barn. There is a picture of the Pony Express Station is Kansas. It is the old Hollenberg Pony Express station. A picture of Mrs. Byron C. Wanger in a covered wagon with Bill Bricker standing beside the wagon. Beside that picture is Charles H. Cliff an early rider.
A picture of the St. Joseph Daily news, April 1880. The original paper is preserved in a Sacramento Library.
Another picture is of the building to the eastern end of the route. This building was located on Penn street The building is directly across the street from the Pony Express marker in Patee Park.
Johnny Frye who was one of the most daring of the Pony Express is pictured. Next to that picture is a picture of Scout Clarence Stewart who is usually Deputy Sheriff Stewart.
There is a picture of the marker in Patee Park and the Pony Express Stamp.
A picture of Brig. Gen. Jeff Thompson appears at the top of the page. He was mayor of St. Joseph when the first Pony Express rider left the stables on Penn street on the first leg of the trip to Sacramento.
There are two of the same newspapers in the this record.