pony express
Example Sentences
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Stagecoach services, like the pony express, took days to traverse the gutted tracks across the wilderness that still separated America’s nascent cities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2025
Why would anyone deliver a thumb drive by pony express or carrier pigeon when the internet was made for the purpose of quickly and easily delivering data electronically?
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2018
Filippini and other ranchers have sued, staged a "pony express" protest ride on horseback to Washington, D.C., and petitioned for Furtado's ouster.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2016
Proud of the independence its riches brought, it had still reached for contact with the eastern U.S., first by stagecoach, then by the pony express, then by the transcontinental railroad.
From Time Magazine Archive
And so they waited for the return of the pony express rider.
From Jack of the Pony Express by Frank V. Webster
