(KMZA)-- The National Pony Express Association will relay mail by horse and rider over the famed Pony Express Trail beginning Wednesday, June 15th through June 25th.
Since 1980, the group has conducted a re-ride of the mail route each June.
Personal mail and commemorative letters will be carried by horseback nearly 2,000 miles from the Sacramento River to the Missouri River.
The first rider is to leave Old Sacramento, California Wednesday morning and the last rider will gallop into St. Joseph, Missouri the afternoon of June 25th. The re-ride will cross 8 states.
The riders travel 24 hours a day, riding in relays of 1 to 5 miles.
The re-ride honors the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company, founded by Russell, Majors and Waddell, a Missouri freighting firm.
It carried letters and telegrams from April 1860 to November 1861, to prove the Central Route passable year-round to win a federal mail contract.
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