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He was afterwards transfered to Idaho where he continued in a similar capacity on a one hundred mile run before quitting the service for a less exciting vocation. Inman & Cody, Salt Lake Trail. Root and Connelley's Overland Stage to California. Early Overland Mail Routes In the history of overland transportation in America, the Pony Express is but one in a series of many enterprises.
Authority for Early Mail Routes is Root and Connelley's Overland Stage to California. The reader will keep in mind that during the early days of California history, practically all communication between that locality and the East was carried on by steamship from New York via Panama. In June, 1860, Congress got into trouble with this company over postal compensations.
We are eight days from New York, eighteen from London. The race is to the swift. The Pony Express had been tried at the tribunal of popular opinion and given a hearty endorsement. It had yet to win the approval of shrewd statesmanship. Root and Connelley's Overland Stage to California. So called because it was about half way between the Missouri River and Denver.
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