{"id":3865,"date":"2026-04-03T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3865"},"modified":"2025-12-11T23:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:17:07","slug":"pony-express-had-its-first-run-in-1860","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3865","title":{"rendered":"Pony Express Had its First Run in 1860"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pony Express had its first <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/8e\/Pony_Express_Poster.jpg\/220px-Pony_Express_Poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"241\" \/>run in 1860<\/strong>. Prior to the Pony Express, a letter took three weeks to make its way across country. William Guin and William Russell started the Pony Express to speed up the delivery of mail. \u00a0They hired 80 riders, bought 400 horses, and established 190 stations. The riders, mostly teenagers, had to be light weight and in excellent shape. \u00a0They rode day and night and in all kinds of weather. A letter carried via the Pony Express left St. Joseph, Missouri and arrived in Sacramento, California (1,966 miles) in ten days. The Pony Express ended in October 26, 1861, two days after the telegraph started. Children could write \u201cjournals\u201d as if they were the actual riders. \u00a0They could describe their \u201cadventures.\u201d Children could also learn more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/es\/mo\/es_mo_pony_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pony Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pony Express had its first run in 1860. Prior to the Pony Express, a letter took three weeks to make its way across country. William Guin and William Russell started the Pony Express to speed up the delivery of mail. \u00a0They hired 80 riders, bought 400 horses, and established 190 stations. The riders, mostly teenagers, <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3865' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5453,5451,2349,2353,2352,2350,2351],"class_list":["post-3865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5453","tag-april-3","tag-pony-express","tag-sacramento","tag-st-joseph","tag-william-guin","tag-william-russell","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3865"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27333,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions\/27333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}