Daring riders sped the mail from Missouri to California in ten days
Go back in time to 1860 or 1861 and picture the traffic on the Oregon Trail - the freight wagons and stagecoaches, and the emigrants, soldiers, and Indians. But most colorful, perhaps, was the Pony Express rider streaking through Scotts Bluff.Mark Twain witnessed the passing of "the Pony" from a stagecoach just a few miles from here: " . . . nearer and still nearer, and the flutter of the hoofs comes faintly to the ear - another instant a whoop and a hurrah from our upper deck, a wave of the rider's hand, but no reply, and man and horse burst past our excited face, and go swinging away like a belated fragment of a storm!"The famed Pony Express operated for only a year and a half. In October 1861, the first transcontinental telegraph connected through here to California, and the era of the Pony Express came to an end.HM Number | HM1MZ2 |
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Series | This marker is part of the Pony Express National Historic Trail series |
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Placed By | National Park Service |
Marker Condition | No reports yet |
Date Added | Monday, August 17th, 2015 at 9:02am PDT -07:00 |
UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 13T E 608074 N 4632606 |
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Decimal Degrees | 41.83798333, -103.69833333 |
Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 41° 50.279', W 103° 41.9' |
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 41° 50' 16.74" N, 103° 41' 54" W |
Driving Directions | Google Maps |
Area Code(s) | 308 |
Closest Postal Address | At or near Unnamed Road, Gering NE 69341, US |
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