But even Bennett, who once broke a rib and tore spinal ligaments in a bike race and recovered to ride 327 miles across Utah and Nevada to reach Burning Man, has a limit to what she can endure. On May ...

There is something timeless in the sound of a horse’s hooves on the Wyoming prairie, the heat of the sun beating on a dusty rider as she crests a hill. While men may have penned the history of the ...

Around 1857, a man named Gerat Hollenberg and his wife, Sophia, built a modest wood-shingled house in present-day Kansas, four years before the territory became a state. The structure also served as a ...

Dawn came late to our first campsite, as the sun crept slowly over the near-vertical walls of Seven-Mile Canyon. It was nearly 7 a.m. before old Sol began warming our tent's walls with enough light to ...

The Pony Express was the most prominent source for delivering news and mail between the east and west until the implementation of the transcontinental telegraph in October of 1861. The approximately 1 ...

Beyond Fort Churchill and Buckland’s Station through the area now known as Churchill County, the history of the Pony Express Stations becomes a confusing mess. Capt. James H. Simpson blazed a trail ...

The Pony Express national President Pam Dixon-Simmons galloped into Old Sacramento and came to a hard stop as the final rider to complete the relay of the 10-day long journey from St. Joseph, Missouri ...

The Pony Express was the most prominent source for delivering news and mail between the east and west until the implementation of the transcontinental telegraph in October 1861. The approximately ...

A Pony Express history published by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission says the “young, skinny fellows, unmarried” got a starting wage of $50 per month, plus board. The original goal was a 10-day ...

The ride was part of Jan Bennett's effort to map out a bikepacking route that followed the trail of Pony Express.

The first Pony Express Rider left Sacramento, California, bound for St. Joseph, Missouri, on April 3, 1860. On that same day, another rider left St. Joseph bound for Sacramento. Since no official ...

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