On the Pony Express Trail: One Man's Bikepacking Journey to Discover History from a Different Kind of Saddle Alumbaugh Scott
On the Pony Express Trail: One Man's Bikepacking Journey to Discover History from a Different Kind of Saddle Alumbaugh Scott The Pony Express has a hold on the American imagination wildly out of…
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On the Pony Express Trail: One Man's Bikepacking Journey to Discover History from a Different Kind of Saddle Alumbaugh Scott
The Pony Express has a hold on the American imagination wildly out of proportion to its actual contribution to the history and development of the West. The only reason it did not fade out of public consciousness, as did the far more successful Butterfield mail, is publicity. It lasted less than eighteen months-about the amount of time it took author Scott Alumbaugh to plan and ride the route-and utterly failed by every measure of success attributed to it.
More than anyone, Buffalo Bill kept the legend alive by including a Pony Express segment throughout the run of his Wild West show. In the Pony's case, a thirty-year campaign of publicity mounted by Buffalo Bill Cody, who mislead the public by claiming to have been a Pony Express rider, and lied outright by claiming to have made the longest Pony Express run. But while the Pony Express may be among the least significant developments of