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Pony Express Rider Finishes By Truck, Grand Forks Herald News Article, April 16, 1960Entry/Object ID
AM1991.1.141Scope and Content
Pony Express Rider Finishes By Truck, Grand Forks Herald News Article, April 16, 1960. News story about rider on Centennial re-run, having to leave his horse behind to deliver the mail to Sacramento.
San Francisco (AP): Pony Express rider Jack Nolan has proved there are better ways to deliver the mail. Leaving his wheezing horse behind 100 miles to the northeast in Sacramento, Nolan arrived by rented truck Friday and turned over 2,500 letters to Postmaster John F. Fixa.
At City Hall he was met by a horse ambulance. Out stepped Deputy Postmaster Fred Kenna, who had been advised that the late-arriving Nolan was riding a lame pony.
Kenna arrived and asked him where his horse was. He replied in Sacramento. A police trailer arrived and Officer Jack Chaney unloaded a horse named Jack. Nolan mounted and rode the horse up the city hall steps. Smiling Mayor George Christopher accepted delivery. That climaxed the centennial observance of delivery of mail from St. Joseph, Missouri to the West Coast.
Nolan, president of the six-member Historical Society of Culver City, California had agreed to relay the mail the 760 miles to San Francisco from the Great Salt Lake, but nobody showed up to make the relays except he and Bill Powers, so they had to do it all themselves. They had only four horses, which they piggy-backed on trucks on the long stretches of road--mounting the horses to ride into towns,
Powers, 50, a Beverly Hill, California driving instructor, was so saddle-sore he didn't accompany Nolan on the last truck-lap from Sacramento.Lexicon
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