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 Historical Trail was the famous route used by fast-riding horsemen to get the mail from Missouri to California at Sacramento, CA. This trail traversed the northern tier states and was ...

In a previous series of articles, I described the Nevada Pony Express Stations in western Nevada, starting from the west. These 16 stations were about half of the 34 Pony Express Stations in Nevada.

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 ...

Out here, miles from nowhere, one doesn't need much of an imagination to visualize "Pony Bob" Haslam galloping by on his horse while being pursued by Indians. As the story goes, Haslam rode a record ...

Editor’s Note: Nevada 150 is a yearlong series highlighting the people, places and things that make up the history of the state. “Pony Bob” Haslam, we couldn’t forget you if we tried. Given the ...

Before the transcontinental telegraph was completed, the Pony Express mail service provided the most direct means of communication between the settled eastern states and the burgeoning West. The Pony ...

A sign for the Historic Pony Express Trail in front of the Toquima Mountains outside Austin, Nevada. milehightraveler/Getty Images Standing beneath a tangled canopy of highway overpasses at the edge ...