On April 3, 1860, horse and rider relay teams set out on the first journey of the Pony Express. Riders left from both Sacramento headed east and from St. Joseph, Mo., headed west. When the westbound ...

Around 1857, a man named Gerat Hollenberg and his wife, Sophia, built a modest wood-shingled house in present-day Kansas, four years before the territory became a state. The structure also served as a ...

There was an awful lot of distance between what had been the Western frontier — Missouri and Iowa — and the new Pacific coast states of California and Oregon. It could take three months or longer to ...

The National Pony Express hit the trail for the first time in two years, kicking off it’s annual “re-ride” Wednesday in Old Sacramento. The commemorative event retraces the roots of the historic mail ...

If you want to know what it was like to travel this legendary trail, there’s only one way: get on a horse and follow all 2,000 miles of it. That’s what writer Will Grant did, retracing the route from ...