Veteran Printer Insisted Fry was First Pony Rider, News Article, 1960
Entry/Object ID
AM1972.14.1Y
Scope and Content
Veteran Printer Insisted Fry was First Pony Rider, News Article, March 19, 1960. St. Joseph News-Press. News story about Mrs. F. Y. Churchill, whose father-in-law, William B. Churchill, had witnessed the first rider take off from St. Joseph, who said that Johnny Fry was the rider. Churchill was a member of the Typographical Union No. 40 in St. Joseph, working for the Gazette, She assumes he set the type about the event in the local paper.
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Pony express
Search Terms
Pony Express Rider, Pony Express First Rider Controversy
