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The Pony Express carried letters more than 1,800 miles in 10 days, from Missouri to California. It lasted just 18 months before the telegraph replaced it.
ILLUSTRATION · AIThe Pony Express carried mail more than 1,800 miles in 10 days, and it lasted only 18 months.
Running from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, the Pony Express could deliver a letter faster than ever before, the National Park Service says. It operated between April 1860 and October 1861.
As the transcontinental telegraph was built, riders carried telegrams between the advancing wire ends. By late October 1861 the line was complete, the Pony Express was officially terminated, and the last letters finished their journey over the route in November.
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