SACRAMENTO-- In the middle of the night on Aug. 26, Steve Pool will pull on a red shirt and blue jeans, wake his horse, Bud, and make his way to the North Fork of the American River. The pair will ...

TOPEKA (KSNT) – Kansas tourism officials are celebrating the designation of the Pony Express Historic Byway this week. Kansas Tourism announced on April 8 the official designation of the historic ...

The Pony Express national President Pam Dixon-Simmons galloped into Old Sacramento and came to a hard stop as the final rider to complete the relay of the 10-day long journey from St. Joseph, Missouri ...

Eight miles may not seem like a great distance to a motorist or bicyclist, but to pooped-out horses who raced daily over Echo Summit carrying bags of mail, the difference meant extra fuel-up time at ...

The Pony Express galloped into Carson Valley Wednesday. Riders were scheduled to leave Old Sacramento at 7 p.m. Tuesday and cross into Nevada at Fredricksburg at 2 p.m. Pony Express spokesman Larry ...

Most people who have driven the segment of U.S. Highway 50 from Sacramento to South Lake Tahoe have probably felt the frustration of slowing down to 35 mph thanks to traffic or icy roads. But in 1860, ...

But even Bennett, who once broke a rib and tore spinal ligaments in a bike race and recovered to ride 327 miles across Utah and Nevada to reach Burning Man, has a limit to what she can endure. On May ...

Across the West are remnants of historic trails, wagon roads, emigrant routes and what’s left of dreams in dry places. In the 19th century, Americans traversed our country on horseback and in wagons, ...

The Pony Express may ultimately have been faster than some of the modern services from a U.S. Postal Service struggling against massive debt and the evil Internet. The result of the cutbacks in the ...

This Smithsonian Snapshot celebrates the April 3, 1860, anniversary of the Pony Express. In 1860, a relay system of horses began to carry mail across the 1,966-mile “central route” between St. Joseph, ...