Pony Express Centennial News Clipping, California Paper July, 1960
Entry/Object ID
AM1991.1.138
Scope and Content
Pony Express Centennial News Clipping California Paper July 1960. Pony Express centennial First Rider Will Fly Route in Jet Plane is the title of the article.
There is a picture of Waddell F. Smith standing beside exact replica of the Pony Express saddle of a century ago, in his Pony Express Retreat in San Rafael. Mail was carried in pouches. Smith will ride the first horse out of Sacramento on July for centennial re-enactment of Pony Express. But he will fly to St. Joseph Missouri and back that same day before starting out on the run--in striking contrast to the speed of travel a century ago.
There is a reason for Smith's jet-hopping back and forth--beyond just contrasting the speed of today's travel with that of the time when his great-grandfather, William Bradford Waddell and two partners launched the most picturesque mail service in the United States history.