Pony Express

Basically after reading this I began to understand how the post office role began in the United States and how things were first sent through ships back in the mid 1850s. It usually took three to four weeks for letters to travel from the east to the west. Then Russell and his two partners, Majors and Waddell formed a Central Overland Peak Express Company which concluded of having relay stations that would take people and send them to where they were headed. Also, the first mail by Pony Express took about 10 1/2 days, going from St. Joseph to Sacramento traveling through the Overland Stage which took less than the original three to four weeks.