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Updated: May 7, 2025
In April, 1860, the firm of Russell, Majors & Waddell organized the wonderful "Pony Express," the most picturesque messenger-service that this country has ever seen. The route was from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, a distance of two thousand miles, across the Plains, over a dreary stretch of sagebrush and alkali desert, and through two great mountain ranges.
Putting this in an envelope, he sealed and stamped it. It should go by post, and Sir Morton would receive it next morning. There was no need for a 'special messenger, either in the person of Bob Keeley, or in the authorised Puck of the Post Office Messenger-service. "For there is not the slightest hurry," he said to himself: "It will not hurt Sir Morton to be kept waiting.
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