The Saga Of The Pony Express 20%Sale By: Peter Alden & Peter

By: Peter Alden & Peter Friederici

Gordon Creek-Carbon County

Echo Canyon and nearby lands are major railroad and interstate highway transportation corridors

fault sections

The Moab quadrangle is located in the south-central portion of Grand County

The Saga Of The Pony Express 20%Sale By: Peter Alden & PeterAmerica in the mid 1800s was a land of burgeoning cities, westward expansion, economic optimism, and political turmoil. Threatened by civil war and Indian uprisings, the government needed better communication with its far flung citizens in the West. Three visionaries dreamt up a seemingly impossible solution: the Pony Express. An elite cadre of young riders would carry the U. S. mail across 2,000 miles of inhospitable wilderness in 10 days. For a