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Pony Express Re-Run Letter: History is Again Achieved, Pony Express Ride 130th Anniversary, 1990Entry/Object ID
AM1990.28.13Scope and Content
Pony Express Re-Run Letter: History is Again Achieved, Pony Express Ride 130th Anniversary, 1990 This was the first international ride, July 5, 1990. Letter sent by rider in this event.
The participants were United States, Czechoslovakia East Germany and Austria. The letter was sent to the Pony Express Museum in St. Joseph Missouri. The post mark on the card is Marysville Kansas Pony Express Station. On the back of the card there are 4 Pony Express stamps: Pony Express June 8, 1990 Sacramento, CA, Pony Express 1990, Czechoslovakia, Pony Express 1990 East Germany and Pony Express June 17, 1990, St. Joseph Missouri.
The message reads: This letter was carried over 1900 miles on horse back, by over 400 horsemen, riding day and night, for 10 days, along the original Pony Express Trail, as the original riders did in 1860 to 1861.
This same year Wyoming celebrates 100 years statehood. Also this same year, the Trails Bill HR1109 was passed. This bill would guarantee the Pony Express Trail for all Americans for all time. On the back of the letter is the history of Wyoming written by Wendall L. Overfield Wyoming President.
The stationery that the letter was written on was National Pony Express Association Pollock Pines, California.Lexicon
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