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October 28 - The Pony Express
On this day in Labor History the year was 1861.
That was the day that the Pony Express made its last run and passed into legend.
The mail delivery service had lasted only a year-and-a-half, until it folded under competition from the newly completed transcontinental telegraph.
The idea for a faster western mail delivery service came from the owners of the wagon freight company Russel, Majors and Waddell.
At the time the railroad terminated in St. Joseph, Missouri.
The goal of the Pony Express Route was to cover the 2,000-mile route from St. Joe to San Francisco in ten days—half the time of…
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