pony express
Example Sentences
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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
"Did the pony express riders ask the permission of the Indians to carry the mail?" he cried.
From Time Magazine Archive
He drove the Overland stage, rode the pony express, was the first sheriff of this county, and forms a connecting link between the days of Indian raids and the present.
From Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences by Daughters of the American Revolution. Nebraska
