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pony express

NOUN
former mail delivery system
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Stagecoach services, like the pony express, took days to traverse the gutted tracks across the wilderness that still separated America’s nascent cities.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 28, 2025

Why would anyone deliver a thumb drive by pony express or carrier pigeon when the internet was made for the purpose of quickly and easily delivering data electronically?

From Slate • Dec. 14, 2018

Filippini and other ranchers have sued, staged a "pony express" protest ride on horseback to Washington, D.C., and petitioned for Furtado's ouster.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2016

America's love of instantaneousness probably stemmed from its rush to conquer great distances, at first with the pony express and clipper ships, later with microwaves and satellites.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gone is the pony express, whose marvelous efficiency could compete with the wind, but not with the harnessed lightning flashed over the telegraph wires.

From An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) by Buffalo Bill