The Model Phase This class is judged “in hand,” which means that the ponies get held by the rider, rather than ridden, and posed for the judge to compare their conformation, way of moving, and soundness. Ponies must be groomed to perfection and riders where all their best attire. What Read more…
The Pony Express Company, the brainchild of William H. Russell, William Bradford Waddell and Alexander Majors, owners of a freight business, was set up over 150 relay stations along a pioneer trail across the present-day states of Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada and California. Who started the Pony Read more…
QB Lance McIlhenny. It started back in April, when SMU released a graphic with a gold Trans Am driving into Dallas, and, ahead of Rhett Lashlee’s first home game as head coach, SMU unveiled a hype video with Eric Dickerson, Craig James and Pony Express QB Lance McIlhenny standing aside Read more…
The last Pony Express rider completed his run in November 1861 after just 19 months. The completion of the transcontinental telegraph in October 1861 made the Pony Express obsolete. How long did the Pony Express last? 18 monthsIn operation for only 18 months between April 1860 and October 1861, the Read more…
about ten years old. Jody is the protagonist of the novel. He is the only child of Carl Tiflin. In the first story of the novel, he is about ten years old. He grows from story to story, but is still a young boy at the end of the book. Read more…
Why is Pony famous now? His picture is in the paper because of the stabbing. What has been happening between the two gangs since Bob was killed? Things have been worse than ever and Dally now carries a gun. Why is Pony boys hair so important? The cutting of Ponyboy’s Read more…
Cody worked as a messenger for the owners of the Pony Express, but there is no record beyond Buffalo Bill’s autobiography that indicates he carried mail across the frontier. In his autobiography, though, Buffalo Bill claimed he rode as a carrier at the age of 14 and once rode 384 Read more…
Fire Streak, or Lightning Dash, is a male Pegasus pony and a retired member of the aerial acrobatics group, the Wonderbolts. He first appears in the season one episode Sonic Rainboom. He is named Fire Streak in Newbie Dash and Parental Glideance, and he is named both Fire Streak and Read more…
April 14, 1860. The first mail delivered via the Pony Express was sent on April 3, 1860 when it left St. Joseph, Missouri. Near midnight on April 14, 1860, the mail reached its destination in San Francisco. When was the first mail pouch delivered by the Pony Express? The riders Read more…
The Pony Express grew out of a need for swifter mail service between the East and West prior to the Civil War. After gold was discovered in 1848 in Sutter’s Mill in California, prospectors joined with homesteaders flocking westward. Why did we need the Pony Express? In the era before Read more…