PONY UP IN NEBRASKA
Jan 22, 2019
3 minutes
BY JIM WINNERMAN
For nearly 160 years the daring young riders of the Pony Express have grabbed the American public’s imagination. Largely overlooked in that story have been the venture’s relay stations, without which the express mail delivery service would never have worked. From its April 1860 inception the express boasted a network of 184 stations along the 1,900-mile route between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California. Most were in existing structures.
Two stations straddling a shared stretch of the Oregon and California trails survive at Gothenburg, Neb. Machette’s Station,
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