Pony Express Horsemen Ride Into Wyoming On Way To Salt Lake, Salt Lake Tribune News Article, 1960
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AM1991.62.2
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Pony Express Horsemen Ride Into Wyoming On Way To Salt Lake, Salt Lake Tribune News Article, 1960. (date not specified). News article about Pony Express Centennial rerun.
Midwestern riders headed their ponies into Wyoming on their "unofficial" re-run over the Pony Express Trail toward Salt Lake City. The caravan of the MO-Kan riding club, representing Missouri and Kansas is expected to reach the Utah capital Saturday at 3 p.m. and will stable its 60 horses at the State Fairgrounds.
Plans call for a similar party from Culver City, California to meet the Mo-Kan riders and carry the mail on to Sacramento. While in Salt Lake City the two groups will be guests of the Sons of Utah Pioneers at the Pioneer Village Museum.
Included in the caravan headed for Salt Lake City are pickup trucks, horse trailers, and Army field kitchen cars, two radio highway patrol cars, a physician, a veterinarian and a blacksmith.
Guernsey, Wyo. is the Wednesday destination of the group. Thursday they intend to reach Muddy Gap. Wyo. prior to moving into Salt Lake City