NOUN
- express mail carried by relays of riders on horseback; especially between Missouri and California around 1860
How To Use pony express In A Sentence
- A stagecoach took one month to deliver mail. A Pony Express rider could do it in ten days.
- Though the Pony Express lost money, it blazed routes later traveled by stagecoaches carrying passengers, freight, and bullion - Wells Fargo's bread and butter.
- Pony Express rider could do it in ten days.
- He had a long career as a trapper, bullwhacker, miner, Pony Express rider, wagon master, stagecoach driver, soldier, and as a prairie scout for the 5th Cavalry, for which he won the Congressional Medal of Honor. QCOnline Metro News
- On April 3, 1860, one Pony Express rider rode west from St. Joseph, Missouri.
