Pony Express Centennial Celebrations to Include Railway Post Office Run, News Article, 1960
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AM1979.28.168
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Pony Express Centennial Celebrations to Include Railway Post Office Run, News Article, 1960. Specific date not identified. Newspaper unidentified.
As part of the Post Office's activities in connection with the issuance of a Pony Express commemorative stamped envelope on July 19 in St. Joseph, Missouri, the Burlington Railroad will make a special run to St. Joseph to re-enact the role of its predecessor, the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad, which brought the first batch of mail for the Pony Express a century before.
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Pony Express Celebration, 1960, Pony Express Railway Re-enactment, Burlington Railroad, Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad