The Pony ExpressCreation : April 3,

1860

Disappearance : October 1861

Central Overland California and Pikes

Peak Express Company

Leader : William H. Russell

History In 1845 : routing a message, by

boat : six months. In 1848 : François-Xavier Aubry.

Five days on horseback. New system : The speed of

individual riders. The first trip west was

accomplished in 10 days .

Operation and Parcour

160 Relay stations Spaced about 8 to 32 km 400 km per day The course was over 3 050 km Saint-Joseph, in Missouri Sacramento, in

California

St Joseph

Sacramento

Price Beginning : 1/2 ounce (30 grams) : $5.00 End : $1.00 $26 in 2013

The horses 400 horses Speed and Endurance Riding, difficult work : tough and lightweight 80 riders 400 other employees William Cody (Buffalo Bill).

Decline Not profitable Impossibility of having a contract with the federal

government for the delivery of mail. In 1861 : First telegraph service (First

Transcontinental Telegraph)