alongside co-founders William Russell and William Waddell, had just two months to get the Pony Express up and running—a more complicated task than it might sound. They not only had to buy ...

"When we think of the Pony Express now, we think of horses and young men racing across all sorts of different terrain. But that wasn't entirely the plan that William Russell and his two partners ...

The Concept: End to End In Just Ten Days The Pony Express was dreamed up by three men who were already in the shipping business: William Russell, William Waddell and Alexander Majors. Their ...

The bank's historian Robert Chandler said the Pony Express was the idea of William H. Russell, a flamboyant promoter who figured if he could start a mail and express service across the center of ...

On Jan. 27, 1860, partner William Russell sent a telegram to his son: “Have determined to establish a Pony Express to Sacramento, California, commencing 3rd of April. Time ten days.” ...

As a result, three business men, William Russell ... On April 14, 1860, the very first mail delivered via the Pony Express reached San Francisco, just 11 days after it left St. Joseph, Mo.

The Pony Express only made it eighteen months before ... Waddell, Alexander Majors and William H. Russell started the Leavenworth & Pikes Peak Express Company just after the 1859 Colorado gold ...

Alexander Majors, William Waddell and William Russell revolutionized the speed that information traveled in the West with the launch of the Pony Express in April 1860. They introduced a service ...