Pony Express!!!

In America, before the days of the railway and the telegraphs, the government began a new system for carrying mail across the united states-from St.Joseph, Missouri, to the Pacific Ocean- which was known as the Pony Express. A number of horses carried the rider, with his mail bag, in a number of stages along the route. Each horse would travel ten or fifteen miles, and then a fresh horse would be saddled up and ridden away. The rider himself would travel three stages, or thirty miles, before being replaced with another riser. The riders had to brave Indian attacks, as well as all kinds of weather, to see the mail delivered, so they must have had great courage, they actually rode horses, not ponies, although they were called the Pony Express.