Name/Title
Newspaper Article - Pony Express Stable RestoredEntry/Object ID
Q2024.30.8ABScope and Content
A two-page article by staff writer, Emma Young, of the Kansas City Times, dated August 21, 1950 titled "Famous Pony Express Stable At St. Joseph Being Restored And Will Become A Museum".
The sub-title reads "Relics of Historic Mail Service and Civil War Era Will Be Housed in Walnut-Beamed Structure, Recalling Days of Physical and Financial Hardships in Opening the West - Many Mementoes Assembled for Exhibit to Be Opened This Fall".Context
The article refers to the insert of a picture of 'the faded red brick building, which virtually was destroyed by time, weather and vandals in its restored form will take its place as a museum and national shrine.' It points out the financing and directing the restoration and perpetuation of the stable was the Goetz Pony Express Foundation'
The article continues with the history of the Pony Express with sub-headings:
Linked East and West
Could House 200 Horses
A Wide Search For Relics
Used 400 Horses
First Mail Service Slow
Pony Express Organized
Route of the ExpressLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Clipping, NewspaperNomenclature Primary Object Term
ClippingNomenclature Sub-Class
Other DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsDimensions
Dimension Notes
5.5 X 13.5"Dimension Notes
3.5" X 10.5"
