Pony Express gallops through Utah
Very old times.
Dozens of Utahns, Nevadans, Wyomingites and other Western history buffs congregated with RVs and tents around a clapboard shack that 150 years ago served as a horse and rider station for the short-lived Pony Express mail service. Trail enthusiasts make the ride between St. Joseph, Mo., and Sacramento, Calif., each summer in 10 days -- by sun and moon -- with little fanfare. But this year they're doubling the time so they can stop to celebrate the anniversary.
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What killed the labor- and horsepower-intensive enterprise after just a year and a half is still poking through the door in the shack. A few feet of telegraph wire, the same that made east-west communication lighting-quick beginning in 1861, coils from the air through a peephole and hangs over a dusty desk in what's now part storage shed and part family museum. A saddle rots next to an unused bed. "My dad always said, 'If these walls could talk, the stories they could tell," rancher Beth Bagley Anderson said. Her rancher father, David Bagley, loved his West Desert outpost's place in history so much that he was the only one to ride in both the 75- and 100-year Pony Express commemorations. The table inside the ranch's rider station holds a framed, blurry black-and-white photo of the |
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