Pony Express Riders by Susan Schwartz Fri Sep 27 1991 ------------------------------- Pony Express Riders by Robert J. Blackburn Copied from the 70th Anniversary Edition Supplement to the Washington County (Kansas) Register. Sept. 1939 The Pony Express was operated by the firm of Russell, Majors and Waddell from St. Joseph, Mo., to Sacrament, Ca. Service over the route was started April 3, 1860 and was maintained continously for an 18 month period. There were 190 stations along the route of more than 2000 miles. There were 40 division points, involving states of Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada and California. The following are the names of the 98 riders: Avis, Henry Baughn,Jim "Boston" Bentley,James Becker,Charles Boulton, William Brandenburger,JOhn Brink,James M. Brown,High Bucklin,Jimmy Burnett,John Cambell,William Carlisle,Alex Carr,William Carrigan, William Cates, Bill Clark,Jimmy Clarke, "Deadwood Dick" Cleve, Richard Cliff,Charles Cody,William F. Cumbo,"Sawed-off Jim" Dean,Louis Donnovan,Joe Dorrington,W.E. Downs,Calvin Dunlap,James E. Egan,Major Ellis,J.K. Faust,H.J. Fisher,John Fisher,Wm. Frye,Johnnie Gardner,Geo Gentry,Jim Gilson,Sam Gould,Frank Hamilton,Sam Haslam, Robert "Pony Bob" Hogan,Martin Huntington,Let "Irish Tom" Higginbotham,Charles James,Wm. Jay, David R. Jenkins,Will D. Jobe,Sam S. Keetley, Jack Kelley, Jay G. Kelley, Mike King, Thomas Owen Koerner, John "Little Yank" Martin,Bob McCaulas,___ McCall,J.G. McDonald,James McEneamny,Pat McNaughton,Jim McNaughton,Wm. Moore,Jim Murphy,J.H. Perkings,Josh Pridham,Wm. Ranahan,Thomas Rand,Theodore Randall,James Reynolds,Thomas Richardson,Johnson Riles,Bart Rising,Don C. Roff,Harry Rush, Edward Seerbeck,John Saniovanni,G.G. Sinclair,John Slade,Jack Spurr,Geo. Streeper,W.H. Strickland,Robe Strohm,Wm Suggett,John W. Thacher,G Thompson,Charles P. Thompson,Charles M. Towne,George Tough,W.S. Upson Warren Wallace, Henry Westcott, Dan Whelan, Michael Wilson, Nick Worley, Henry Zowgaltz, Jose Van Blaricon, ____ ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ³ This file is from The Source of Magic, Ridgefield CT ³ ³ 203-431-4687, source for genealogy, radio, & Windows ³ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ