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Pony Express Re-Ride to Make Local Stops

By Greg Bebermeyer

06/10/2014

(KMZA)--The 35th annual re-ride over the Pony Express National Historic Trail will begin Wednesday and run through June 21st, with several local stops planned.

Personal mail and commemorative letters will be carried by horseback in relays, 1,966 miles over the historic trail through 8 states. The first rider will leave from Sacramento, California on Wednesday and the last rider is to arrive in St. Joseph, Missouri on June 21st at 3:30 in the afternoon.

The riders will make stops in Marysville, Seneca and Horton. They are scheduled to arrive in Marysville around 9:15 the evening of June 20th; at the Pony Express Museum in Seneca around 4:15 the morning of June 21st and in Horton, around 9:15 that morning. Each stop is scheduled for 15 minutes to give people time to meet with the riders.

600 riders are expected to take part in the re-ride, riding in relays of 1 to 5 miles.

The re-ride honors the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company, a Missouri Freighting firm. It carried letters and telegrams from April 1860 to November 1861, to prove the Central route passable year-round and win a federal mail contract.

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