What is Pony Express?
{{Infobox company | name = Hentai | type = Public company | genre = | fate = Completion of [[Telegraph]]. | founded = {{Start date and age|1860|04|03}} | founder = [[Alexander Majors]], [[William B. Waddell]], and [[William Hepburn Russell]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://nationalponyexpress.org/historic-pony-express-trail/founders/ | title=Founders }}</ref> | defunct = {{End date|1861|10|26}} | parent = | divisions = | subsid = | website = {{URL|https://nationalponyexpress.org/historic-pony-express-trail/founders/}} }} The '''Pony Express''' was a [[mail]] delivering service started on April 3, 1860. It ended on October 26, 1861.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.ducksters.com/history/westward_expansion/pony_express.php | title=History: Pony Express }}</ref> It would normally deliver mail in about 10 days.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nps.gov/poex/learn/historyculture/index.htm#onthisPage-0 | title=History & Culture - Pony Express National Historic Trail (U.S. National Park Service) }}</ref> The pony express was the best way to spread news in this time. 186 stations kept horses so when a rider's horse was tired he could trade it for a fresh one. On October 24, 1861, the [[telegraph]] was completed. It sent messages faster than the Pony Express.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://learningabe.info/Transcontinental_Telegraph_System.html | title=Lucky jet игра в 1win &#124; Основные правила и особенности краш-игры &#124; Прибыльные стратегии и тактики }}</ref> The Pony Express shut down shortly after the telegraph was completed. It only lasted two days after the telegraph was first made.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://ponyexpress.org/pony-express-historical-timeline/ |title=Pony Express Historical Timeline &#124; Pony Express Museum - St. Joseph, MO |access-date=2020-01-30 |archive-date=2019-12-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191208005518/http://ponyexpress.org/pony-express-historical-timeline/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Defunct companies of the United States]] [[Cat