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Pony Express 80th Anniversary First day issue envelope, St. Joseph,1940Entry/Object ID
AM1998.1.14Scope and Content
80th Anniversary of Pony Express: First Day Issue Envelope addressed to Arthur Mills Smith, 105 Belcher Ave. Brockton, Mass. Postmarked St. Joseph, MO, April 3, 1940.
Illustration in black: Pony Rider from side on spotted horse, with rifle pointed, clouds behind. Text underneath "The Pony Express Service carrying mail between St. Joseph, Missouri and the Pacific Coast was started April 3, 1860...harassed by hostile Indians, often obliged to carry on over several links of the route when their relief riders were killed, relays of these fearless riders traversed the trackless plains from western railhead to the coast in about ten and one half days--the served was short-lived, being supplanted by the transcontinental telegraph in 1861, but its story remains one of the inspiring chapters in the historical background of the words "The mail must go through".
Same illustration as 98.1.15.Lexicon
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