The first successful United States <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pony_Express" id="mwPw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Pony Express">Pony Express</a> run from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Joseph,_Missouri" id="mwQA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="St. Joseph, Missouri">St. Joseph, Missouri</a>, to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento,_California" id="mwQQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sacramento, California">Sacramento, California</a>, begins.<sup about="#mwt48" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"}}' id="cite_ref-7" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./April_3#cite_note-7" id="mwQg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 7;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwQw">[7]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"><cite about="#mwt45" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFCorbett2003">Corbett, Christopher (2003). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=vGE9DwAAQBAJ" id="mwBx4" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBx8">Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express</i></a>. New York: Broadway Books. pp.<span id="mwByA" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>46–48. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwByE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwByI" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780767906920" id="mwByM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780767906920"><bdi id="mwByQ">9780767906920</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt45" class="Z3988" id="mwByU" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Orphans+Preferred%3A+The+Twisted+Truth+and+Lasting+Legend+of+the+Pony+Express&amp;rft.place=New+York&amp;rft.pages=46-48&amp;rft.pub=Broadway+Books&amp;rft.date=2003&amp;rft.isbn=9780767906920&amp;rft.aulast=Corbett&amp;rft.aufirst=Christopher&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DvGE9DwAAQBAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AApril+3"></span></span>