I'm noticing the comments about not learning this in school. I learned about the Pony Express in grade school...especially the part about orphans being preferred. You'd be so surprised by the list of things no longer taught in schools of late...and the omissions are mostly deliberate. Wonderhussy has a lot of the stuff covered...for those who can watch her. Too bad others can't join in for fear of censorship or worse. Thanks, Wonderhussy for doing your best to cover that which isn't covered well...or at all. And much love, Darlin'
Can you imagine if the whole story was told? I would bet money that some of those "Jed and Ted" station masters were a little closer than the normal two old geezers. It was a place where they could blend into the society without the hassles of neighbors. And the company would not care what their orientation was as long as the job got done. Use to be a lot of tolerance as long as you did not flaunt it in their face and rub their noses in it. Still had to be some tough guys to fight off horse rustlers and Indian raiders.
I am Charles William (Bill) Tait and my relative Billy Tait was a pony express rider! He had been chased down by “native Americans” and was later found in a rocky outcropping with the mail pouch, two empty colt revolvers, full of arrows and a few dead attackers!
An FYI for you Darlin. If ever in St. Joseph The pony Express Muzuim is really cool. It was in 1994 it is also right down the hill from Jesse James's house where he was shot. 3 more FYI about the Pony Express Buffalo Bill & his little brother Pony Bob were riders for the Pony Express. And The Pony Express only lasted 18 months. They only lost one delivery.
@Alpha Allan Well aware It's fun to see how long it takes someone to take their time to correct me. And this went a full 20 hours. A new record. WonderHussy has the greatest fans.
One time 4WD in outback Australia we came across some isolated drovers huts, so I said to one of our party why not sleep in the ruins of one so the spirits of those past could enter our dreams. That night he slept in his 4WD.
I've traveled all around North America in my RV for 11 years but our Hussinator makes me look like a novice...Good on her...Betcha our Hussinator would be great playing Pony Express, it's like Post Office with a little more horsing around...
Can you imaging the look on their faces when a scantily-clad young woman pulled up in a rugged horseless carriage and started talking to a pole with a slab of black glass mounted on it?
That was very interesting and I've enjoyed your history vlogs. Hardy tough earlier generation of Americans are a testament to individual liberty. Love the pony express story
Hi Sarah Jane. Once again you have given us an amazing show. There's so much to know about these things. Just imagine how tough these boys and men were! They were a much stronger breed than we are today. Having you show us these things is pure joy and education that people, when finding your channel, just stumble upon and accidentally without knowing it, learn something new! Love you for it. I am declaring you a National Treasure. Love ya....J
Wow, I never knew how young the Pony Express riders were as one of my relatives down the line was a rider. My mother, through inheritance from here father, my grandpa, received this young man's gun. The story I was told never mentioned how young he was, but did include why the 5 notches' were cut into the grip. I'll leave that for your imagination Sarah, I'm certain you can guess why. Thanks so much, that was very interesting, and informative. 👍✌💚
I think it is easy to forget these days how prevalent child labor was in the not so distant past, and the extent of what kids where doing (ie: mining). 1938 is when the US enacted its child labor laws, and a couple years earlier here in Canada, then consider how many years that those laws may have been ignored by some enterprises.
That was a fascinating bit of history we all just learned about the pony express! One of the most interesting things I saw in your video was the image of the recruitment poster for pony express riders. It was asking for young, wiry and lean teenagers who were no older than eighteen. The next line really should make us aware of how dangerous a job this must have been, however. It said "Orphans preferred!" Yikes! LOL! Thanks again for your wonderful videos!!
Just an innocent harmless question for you. Did you never have 'American History' in your school while growing up??? Many didn't get the 'best part' of modern education due to changing curriculum over the years. American History Is The Best.
Orphans preferred just means that it was an incredibly dangerous job that probably did not pay enough. No parents to come after them for the loss of a child. No bad publicity when parents raised Cain to the press either.
I remember an old TV series called "The Young Riders" about the Pony express, it was filmed in Ol Tucson and starred some well known celebs before they were famous. The show was actually pretty good and still worth checking out if you can find it. I loved the show so much as a teen and it actually influenced my life and career, I joined the postal service and rode a honda ct110 motorbike (steel pony) delivering mail for 13 years!
Hello wonderhussy. It's Ted from Texas, your friend. I just enjoy you doing these bits of information and history for us. Thank you and please be careful in the desert, watch out for snakes and scorpions. See you in your next adventure
Hi Sarah Today our pony express riders are the train crews. You go 8 to 10 hours one way lay over for a night and they head back to home. Just hope that nobody broke down or had a wreck. A train from NY to Chicago or the west coast to Chicago or St. Louis takes several days switching crews...Larry
Good one! I've been following the Butterfield Stage coach stations here in AZ .. one is only a mile or so away from the Oatman Massacre site! Love this stuff! 🤠👍
Thank you so much sis wonderhussy for sharing the history of the Pony Express that is very interesting have a great day and be safe sincerely Suszie ❤💜💜🌺🌺
@ISeeDogs There is a GPS track of a bald eagle covering from Iraq north over a few years. Hers would look the same. Nothing creepy about looking back at where someone has been.
I noticed that in the station walls there was a rebar of sorts in the grout space between the stone faces 🤔 … I didn’t think that was in use till the 1900’s 😏 … very interesting 🤓
Thanks for your videos.. I enjoyed the "History Lesson" about the pony express. You make this Old Grandma Laugh. I look forward to your Wednesday videos...I'm kinda superstitious about Wednesdays...very important events have happened to me on Wednesdays..born premature on a Wednesday, hired and fired on Wednesdays, my Mom passed away on a Wednesday, And I met my future husband on a Wednesday!
That was very interesting I’m glad you went to the pony express and shared it with us cause I always wondered how they did this thank you very much from the old retired guy👍👨🏻🦳👍
Speaking of Jed and Ted, can only imagine how popular you would have been if Wonderhussy pulled into their little station. Bet you would have gotten their full attention.
While a healthy horse could gallop for 10-12 miles, the terrain and trail conditions would limit the amount of full galloping, so it makes sense to place the stations 12-15 miles apart, as a portion would be at a trot or crossing bodies of water.
Keep in mind most pony Express riders were in their early teens to maybe 16, as they had to be as light as possible to haul more mail and get the distance out of the horse.
In Santa Cruz, my family owned a business around the late 1800's It was named Horn's Corner. It was a Pony Express stop and a Stage Stop. Horn's Corner offer food, drink, and companionship with women upstairs.
Stagecoach stations were crazy, too. Saw one at Fort Wallace, Kansas, a month ago which boasted in its advertising posters that it had an underground tunnel, so that during the Plains Indian wars of the late 1860s, you could get in and out of the station without getting shot to death! A couple and their three babies lived in two rooms on top. At another ex-station near me (Bent's New Fort, Colorado) the wife cooked for passengers, drivers, herders, and staff and she was a new little bride barely fifteen years old! They made people tough in those days.
I just went through Utah it was raining at Bryce C. Took hwy 12 to both parks totally awesome hwy 95 to Mexican Hat, night at Mexican Hat Lodge funky but cool☮️🌵❤️things were tough those days, no 7-11s or emergency services.
Great exploring adventure about pony express.On tv there is a program that was a series about 7 and each has 12 ? Per great program of the pony express 🇺🇸🌌
We had part of the “Pony express “ here in Nova Scotia! Cunard shipping would bring mail to Halifax from Europe and the pony express would run it to Victoria beach on the Bay of Fundy! Across the the Bay of Fundy by a quick boat to New England and on from there! If you ever make it to Nova Scotia I’ll show you around!!!
“Orphans Preferred” I thought was the most interesting thing on the flyer. My suspicion is a stone and mortar station was the exception and log construction was the rule. Notice the stone
And then there’s always the fun of being a rider out in the middle of a pitch black night going at full speed when your horse steps into a hole that you couldn’t see breaking it’s leg and throwing you, so now you have to shoot the horse to put it out of it’s misery, that is assuming you didn’t break you neck, then grab the mail pouch and walk the rest of the way to the next station.
I used to live in Dugway Utah many years ago. It was fun living there, believe it or not. Many times I drove that route, going to the geode beds, the cold geysers, or just getting off the base. I miss Utah alot. But the Pony Express route has alot of things to see and do along it, if one just stops and look. There are numerous mustangs out there and there is a curious little town too that farmers live in, (its also part of a small, Piute I think, reservation land. Nice people. There are alot of people who love to go rock hunting in the area. You go girl! I love watching your videos and they make me so darn homesick.
🇺🇲 I think the quality of your content and dedication to your channel is up there with your own personal hero, Huell Howser. And we, your subscribers are all the richer for it. Thank you 🇬🇧.
Some guy made a video of a small pool of water in the Arizona mountains. It was amazing. It was kinda like your hot springs but all these different animals started showing up. Bears just climb in an soak like you do. I was waiting for a wonderhussy to show up. There was even a mountain lion.
I love your imagination and your ability to tell a story just from the few plaques. I love your imagination and your ability to tell a story just from the few plaques..
IDK how you do these long remote rides w/o losing your mind sometimes!😀😀😀, but I'm SO glad you do it.. Bc I don't think I have the patience to drive that far! TY Sarah for all you do for us.. You're the BEST!
HA! I follow you on Google maps sometimes and saw this was near one of your other places and I thought to myself "Humm...wonder if she's ever going to check out that Pony Express place " And...here it is!
12:15 _"It's kind of like with being a big rig driver: they're not all over-the-road, where you're going across country; some of them are localized."_ This is correct. In fact, a significant percentage of all truckers are "local" in the sense of returning to the same place they leave from each day, even though they may drive hundreds of miles and cross state lines in the interim. I did this for many years, and would often drive between 400 and 600 miles in each 10 to 12 hour shift. The long haul form of trucking is definitely more of a lifestyle, due to the requirement of living in the truck 24/7 for weeks at a time, whereas the local form is more of a job since you're home everyday and off a day or two each week.
St Joseph, MO has a pony express museum and has excavated a pony express stop in the ground fully intact. Also has a topology of tge stops from St. Joseph's to CA running around the outer edge. It is worth seeing if your in the area. Also nearby is the home and where Jesse James was shot. Great video!
If $5.00 was the equivalent of $1,000 in 2002 money...then 25 bucks would be the equivalent of $5,000 a week... Each rider was carrying 10 pounds of mail, at $10 per ounce...that would be $1,600 per rider...
The pony express didn’t last as long as Covid so I suppose Jed and Ted getting on each other‘s nerves is no worse than those of us who are working from home together! Thanks for another great story!
The first thing you showed is for putting nails into concrete. You load a 22 bullet case with power no shell in it. Then you put your nail in the end and hit it with a hammer.
My great X's 3 grandfather rode for the pony express for the 18 months they were in operation. Then he was a surveyor in the Nebraska Territory.
It's always great to get an update from our Middle of Nowhere correspondent.
Where is our Sarah now? Middle of nowhere!
I'm noticing the comments about not learning this in school. I learned about the Pony Express in grade school...especially the part about orphans being preferred. You'd be so surprised
by the list of things no longer taught in schools of late...and the omissions are mostly deliberate. Wonderhussy has a lot of the stuff covered...for those who can watch her. Too bad
others can't join in for fear of censorship or worse. Thanks, Wonderhussy for doing your best to cover that which isn't covered well...or at all. And much love, Darlin'
Can you imagine if the whole story was told? I would bet money that some of those "Jed and Ted" station masters were a little closer than the normal two old geezers. It was a place where they could blend into the society without the hassles of neighbors. And the company would not care what their orientation was as long as the job got done. Use to be a lot of tolerance as long as you did not flaunt it in their face and rub their noses in it. Still had to be some tough guys to fight off horse rustlers and Indian raiders.
That’s why I live at a truck stop
Hey W H,
Like you I admire everyone connected with the pony express. However, I think the real heroes were the horses.
So, so correct!
They fed ‘em well and treated ‘em well
I am Charles William (Bill) Tait and my relative Billy Tait was a pony express rider! He had been chased down by “native Americans” and was later found in a rocky outcropping with the mail pouch, two empty colt revolvers, full of arrows and a few dead attackers!
Not work for the weak of heart.
I just love the ingenuity and spirit of the early American people. The mail must go through 💪 ♥️🇺🇲
Thank god the people in the west could get their Bed Bath and Beyond coupons and Comcast adverts
THANK YOU SARAH,,SAFE TRAVELS..
An FYI for you Darlin. If ever in St. Joseph The pony Express Muzuim is really cool. It was in 1994 it is also right down the hill from Jesse James's house where he was shot. 3 more FYI about the Pony Express Buffalo Bill & his little brother Pony Bob were riders for the Pony Express. And The Pony Express only lasted 18 months. They only lost one delivery.
@Alpha Allan Well aware It's fun to see how long it takes someone to take their time to correct me. And this went a full 20 hours. A new record. WonderHussy has the greatest fans.
One time 4WD in outback Australia we came across some isolated drovers huts, so I said to one of our party why not sleep in the ruins of one so the spirits of those past could enter our dreams. That night he slept in his 4WD.
Ten days! That faster than the USPS can deliver mail today.
@kevin barker Sure does, I saw the video about her finally getting her new bumper.
Great video. Very informative.
Who wouldn't want to do that, ME!!!! Being scalped looks quite painful!!!! LOL
I've traveled all around North America in my RV for 11 years but our Hussinator makes me look like a novice...Good on her...Betcha our Hussinator would be great playing Pony Express, it's like Post Office with a little more horsing around...
😃
Hussinator! What a fabulous name!
You deserve a gold medal for the story and your interesting imagination! ATB
WH-Great video about the Pony Express!! But you need to look into a 12 volt cooler so you don't need to worry about ice melting!!
I was thinking of getting one of the really small ones.. Bc I don't need that much, but out in the desert cold water sure would be handy.
💚💛🧡❤😀Very interesting. Thank you.
Awesome there is a gate.
As a big rig driver I have to stop and stretch about every 100 miles good miles can't imagine writing a horse that far
I am sure that Jed and Ted would have loved your commentary. Thank you for sharing this with us today, have a wonderful day.
Can you imaging the look on their faces when a scantily-clad young woman pulled up in a rugged horseless carriage and started talking to a pole with a slab of black glass mounted on it?
I grew up in St. Joseph MO where the Pony Express started
I live in st joseph
That was very interesting and I've enjoyed your history vlogs. Hardy tough earlier generation of Americans are a testament to individual liberty. Love the pony express story
And innovation.
Wild Bill Hickok used to work for the Pony Express great blog You Beautiful tour guide
Cool history. Never knew about this 🤔
Hi Sarah Jane. Once again you have given us an amazing show. There's so much to know about these things. Just imagine how tough these boys and men were! They were a much stronger breed than we are today. Having you show us these things is pure joy and education that people, when finding your channel, just stumble upon and accidentally without knowing it, learn something new! Love you for it. I am declaring you a National Treasure. Love ya....J
Wow, I never knew how young the Pony Express riders were as one of my relatives down the line was a rider. My mother, through inheritance from here father, my grandpa, received this young man's gun. The story I was told never mentioned how young he was, but did include why the 5 notches' were cut into the grip. I'll leave that for your imagination Sarah, I'm certain you can guess why. Thanks so much, that was very interesting, and informative. 👍✌💚
I think it is easy to forget these days how prevalent child labor was in the not so distant past, and the extent of what kids where doing (ie: mining). 1938 is when the US enacted its child labor laws, and a couple years earlier here in Canada, then consider how many years that those laws may have been ignored by some enterprises.
That was a fascinating bit of history we all just learned about the pony express! One of the most interesting things I saw in your video was the image of the recruitment poster for pony express riders. It was asking for young, wiry and lean teenagers who were no older than eighteen. The next line really should make us aware of how dangerous a job this must have been, however. It said "Orphans preferred!" Yikes! LOL! Thanks again for your wonderful videos!!
Just an innocent harmless question for you. Did you never have 'American History' in your school while growing up??? Many didn't get the 'best part' of modern education due to changing curriculum over the years. American History Is The Best.
Orphans preferred just means that it was an incredibly dangerous job that probably did not pay enough. No parents to come after them for the loss of a child. No bad publicity when parents raised Cain to the press either.
Thank You for this story of the Unsung Heroes of the West .
I remember an old TV series called "The Young Riders" about the Pony express, it was filmed in Ol Tucson and starred some well known celebs before they were famous. The show was actually pretty good and still worth checking out if you can find it. I loved the show so much as a teen and it actually influenced my life and career, I joined the postal service and rode a honda ct110 motorbike (steel pony) delivering mail for 13 years!
Hello wonderhussy. It's Ted from Texas, your friend. I just enjoy you doing these bits of information and history for us. Thank you and please be careful in the desert, watch out for snakes and scorpions. See you in your next adventure
Your comments about Jed and Ted cracked me up. Love how you can pull so much out of what most people would only see as an old dusty ruin!
Damn that was more expensive than good blow back in the day!
Hi Sarah Today our pony express riders are the train crews. You go 8 to 10 hours one way lay over for a night and they head back to home. Just hope that nobody broke down or had a wreck. A train from NY to Chicago or the west coast to Chicago or St. Louis takes several days switching crews...Larry
Good one! I've been following the Butterfield Stage coach stations here in AZ .. one is only a mile or so away from the Oatman Massacre site! Love this stuff! 🤠👍
It sounds like the historic Route 66 is close to the route of the pony express
Thank you so much sis wonderhussy for sharing the history of the Pony Express that is very interesting have a great day and be safe sincerely Suszie ❤💜💜🌺🌺
Yet another Learning moment which included a Ton Of Fun Too! Love to Giddy Up and Go with WH...YEEEEEE HAW Cheers From Ohio
We use to go to the pony express trail on outings when I lived in Stockton Utah, 40 years ago. Miss that place.
I would love to see a GPS track of Hussy's travels over the years.
@ISeeDogs There is a GPS track of a bald eagle covering from Iraq north over a few years. Hers would look the same. Nothing creepy about looking back at where someone has been.
Very cool!
The old pony express trail around Silver Springs, Nevada is awesome. Also, lots of hot springs in the area.
Thank You SJ, I love Wednesdays because of you and the services you provide.
You are the best thing about Wednesday. Thank you for sharing always so awesome.
I noticed that in the station walls there was a rebar of sorts in the grout space between the stone faces 🤔 … I didn’t think that was in use till the 1900’s 😏 … very interesting 🤓
Maybe it was rebuilt at some point as a historic location and not maintained after that. I saw the rebar as well.
I noticed it also. It did cross my mind "did they have rebar in the later 1800s?". I'm thinking that was newer construction.
Thanks for your videos.. I enjoyed the "History Lesson" about the pony express. You make this Old Grandma Laugh. I look forward to your Wednesday videos...I'm kinda superstitious about Wednesdays...very important events have happened to me on Wednesdays..born premature on a Wednesday, hired and fired on Wednesdays, my Mom passed away on a Wednesday, And I met my future husband on a Wednesday!
That was very interesting I’m glad you went to the pony express and shared it with us cause I always wondered how they did this thank you very much from the old retired guy👍👨🏻🦳👍
I really like your imaginative stories about the people who may have once been in the areas you explore!
You share more history better than when I was in school ,by actually being there
A perfect time to check out Blackjack Slade.
Thank You for the review of the Pony Express!! Knew a lot of the history to begin with!!! Take Care and Stay Safe Wonderhussy!!!!!
I agree with you, WH, this was very interesting and I learned that I didn't know everything about the Pony Express.
I'm from Sacramento. Always enjoyed the history of the pony express. The end of the line was Sacramento
Speaking of Jed and Ted, can only imagine how popular you would have been if Wonderhussy pulled into their little station. Bet you would have gotten their full attention.
There was a TV show about the pony express, in the late 80's or early 90s.
Another chapter of American history! Thanks. Wonder Hussy.
While a healthy horse could gallop for 10-12 miles, the terrain and trail conditions would limit the amount of full galloping, so it makes sense to place the stations 12-15 miles apart, as a portion would be at a trot or crossing bodies of water.
Keep in mind most pony Express riders were in their early teens to maybe 16, as they had to be as light as possible to haul more mail and get the distance out of the horse.
I think the pony Express and postal service had full-time construction crews on the payroll
In Santa Cruz, my family owned a business around the late 1800's It was named Horn's Corner. It was a Pony Express stop and a Stage Stop. Horn's Corner offer food, drink, and companionship with women upstairs.
Stagecoach stations were crazy, too. Saw one at Fort Wallace, Kansas, a month ago which boasted in its advertising posters that it had an underground tunnel, so that during the Plains Indian wars of the late 1860s, you could get in and out of the station without getting shot to death! A couple and their three babies lived in two rooms on top. At another ex-station near me (Bent's New Fort, Colorado) the wife cooked for passengers, drivers, herders, and staff and she was a new little bride barely fifteen years old! They made people tough in those days.
Pretty neat how the pic on top of the Boyd Station sign blends into natural scenery, so the rider looks as if he is riding across background desert.
I just went through Utah it was raining at Bryce C. Took hwy 12 to both parks totally awesome hwy 95 to Mexican Hat, night at Mexican Hat Lodge funky but cool☮️🌵❤️things were tough those days, no 7-11s or emergency services.
They rode fast And hard work. Poor horse.!
Great exploring adventure about pony express.On tv there is a program that was a series about 7 and each has 12 ? Per great program of the pony express 🇺🇸🌌
We had part of the “Pony express “ here in Nova Scotia! Cunard shipping would bring mail to Halifax from Europe and the pony express would run it to Victoria beach on the Bay of Fundy! Across the the Bay of Fundy by a quick boat to New England and on from there! If you ever make it to Nova Scotia I’ll show you around!!!
Middle of nowhere, that's what you say about them all:)
“Orphans Preferred” I thought was the most interesting thing on the flyer. My suspicion is a stone and mortar station was the exception and log construction was the rule. Notice the stone
Thank you for relaying the information ambassador Wonderhussy. See you in the hot spring.
I can’t imagine the riders riding at a full gallop at nite!! There was no groomed trail to follow. Thanks Sarah Jane for the video tour.
And then there’s always the fun of being a rider out in the middle of a pitch black night going at full speed when your horse steps into a hole that you couldn’t see breaking it’s leg and throwing you, so now you have to shoot the horse to put it out of it’s misery, that is assuming you didn’t break you neck, then grab the mail pouch and walk the rest of the way to the next station.
@@pauliedweasel I thought of the same thing. What a Massive 'OUCH' that would have been. 👍
You know something Sarah...you're getting pretty good at this...great production values...thank you!! Looking forward to your next effort!!
I used to live in Dugway Utah many years ago. It was fun living there, believe it or not. Many times I drove that route, going to the geode beds, the cold geysers, or just getting off the base. I miss Utah alot. But the Pony Express route has alot of things to see and do along it, if one just stops and look. There are numerous mustangs out there and there is a curious little town too that farmers live in, (its also part of a small, Piute I think, reservation land. Nice people. There are alot of people who love to go rock hunting in the area. You go girl! I love watching your videos and they make me so darn homesick.
So beautiful. Love all your videos.
🇺🇲 I think the quality of your content and dedication to your channel is up there with your own personal hero, Huell Howser.
And we, your subscribers are all the richer for it.
Thank you 🇬🇧.
California's Gold was a great show and is a really good historical record.
Some guy made a video of a small pool of water in the Arizona mountains. It was amazing. It was kinda like your hot springs but all these different animals started showing up. Bears just climb in an soak like you do. I was waiting for a wonderhussy to show up. There was even a mountain lion.
Thanks! Very interesting.
I love your imagination and your ability to tell a story just from the few plaques. I love your imagination and your ability to tell a story just from the few plaques..
Great story telling thanks for the adventure 🇺🇸💥
You are hysterical, "Jed and Ted"...🤣🤣🤣
IDK how you do these long remote rides w/o losing your mind sometimes!😀😀😀, but I'm SO glad you do it.. Bc I don't think I have the patience to drive that far! TY Sarah for all you do for us.. You're the BEST!
Great video 👍 ! Brings back memories of when history like this was taught in school . Glad sites like these exist
At 04:59 you ran your finger over me & I felt it in my soul. I think our whole County in Western Nebraska felt you! LoL
Yes. It was as interesting to me as it was for you. Thank you.
HA! I follow you on Google maps sometimes and saw this was near one of your other places and I thought to myself "Humm...wonder if she's ever going to check out that Pony Express place " And...here it is!
Thanks for another adventure!
I live less then a mile away from where the pony express started, in St. Joseph, MO. The old barns are still standing and are a tourist attraction.
Verrrrry interesting!!
👍👍👍👊😎
I was just watching an episode of Bonanza where Little Joe works as a Pony Express rider.
12:15 _"It's kind of like with being a big rig driver: they're not all over-the-road, where you're going across country; some of them are localized."_
This is correct. In fact, a significant percentage of all truckers are "local" in the sense of returning to the same place they leave from each day, even though they may drive hundreds of miles and cross state lines in the interim. I did this for many years, and would often drive between 400 and 600 miles in each 10 to 12 hour shift. The long haul form of trucking is definitely more of a lifestyle, due to the requirement of living in the truck 24/7 for weeks at a time, whereas the local form is more of a job since you're home everyday and off a day or two each week.
In the words of Bill (or Ted for that matter), Excellent!
Very interesting and informative. Thanks, Wonderhussy.
St Joseph, MO has a pony express museum and has excavated a pony express stop in the ground fully intact. Also has a topology of tge stops from St. Joseph's to CA running around the outer edge. It is worth seeing if your in the area. Also nearby is the home and where Jesse James was shot. Great video!
You do learn something new everyday. Great video.
That area in winter can sometimes get to -20 degrees. Imagine a Pony Express rider getting caught in a snow blizzard. A death sentence.
$25 Dollars a week was a good wage back then and you didn't even have to pay for horse insurance because they weren't your horses!
Correct, a U S soldier was paid $13 a month back then.
If $5.00 was the equivalent of $1,000 in 2002 money...then 25 bucks would be the equivalent of $5,000 a week...
Each rider was carrying 10 pounds of mail, at $10 per ounce...that would be $1,600 per rider...
you videos give me the wonderlust. keep up the good work.
The pony express didn’t last as long as Covid so I suppose Jed and Ted getting on each other‘s nerves is no worse than those of us who are working from home together! Thanks for another great story!
Well, Jed is on day shift and Ted is the night person, so I doubt they are getting on each other's nerves much.
Check out Egan Canyon near Cherry Creek as it was on the pony express trail
And you can make up stories better than anyone!
Thanks🤟
I've been out that way a couple of times, but didn't stop at that one! Now I know what I've missed!
Holy moly! 100 miles on a speeding horse! That was brutal.
I ponder what the landscape looked like before grazing. Also when big carnivores roamed.
The first thing you showed is for putting nails into concrete. You load a 22 bullet case with power no shell in it. Then you put your nail in the end and hit it with a hammer.
That was an interesting and informative video. Sarah. I enjoyed it immensely.
Giddy-up! Pony Express history is fascinating. Thanks for taking us along.