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 \nThe sun was setting when young JohnnieFrye put the mail in his saddlebag.It containedletters,newspapers,and telegrams.The  \ntelegraph line stopped in Nebraska.So the PonyExpress would carry the telegrams further west.  \nAt 7:15 P.M.,Frye mounted his horse andgalloped off toward the Missouri River.Fromthere,he crossed by ferry into Kansas.Then heset out again,riding west across the prairie.  \nSoon he reached his first stop in Kansas,thetown of Troy.He dismounted,grabbing themailbag and throwing it on a fresh horse.Herode on to Kennekuk and then Kickapoo,wherehe changed horses again.Around 11:30 P.M.,Frye entered the little town of Granada,Kansas.His job was done.  \nNow Don Rising took over.He already had hishorse saddled when he heard the hoofbeats ofFrye's horse.No time was lost!  \nDon rode for eight hours,changing horsesregularly.He finished his route at Marysville,Kansas.There,another rider took the preciousbag of mail.By April 5,the mail had reachedFort Kearney in Nebraska.  \nNow the land became drier.The riders pulledkerchiefs over their mouths and noses to keepout the dust.They rode on toward the RockyMountains.A rider crossed the Rockies andarrived at Salt Lake City,Utah,on April 9.  \nThe trail between Utah and Nevada wasdangerous.It was also the home of the Paiuteand Gosiute people.They didn't like wagontrains crossing their land.But the rider had notrouble.  \nIn Carson City,Nevada,a telegrapher waswaiting for the telegrams.He wired them toSacramento,along with the news that the mailwas on its way.  \nThe last rider was William Hamilton.Hegalloped into Sacramento on April 13.The triphad taken just two hours less than ten days.  \nAt about the same time,there was acelebration in St.Joseph,Missouri.A PonyExpress rider had just arrived there,ten daysafter leaving California.The Pony Express hadkept its promise!  \nThe Pony Express was a mail delivery servicethat used riders on horseback.From 1860 to1861,the Pony Express carried mail beyond therailroad and faster than a stagecoach.The ideafor the Pony Express came from William H.Russell.At the time,the Butterfield OverlandMail took at least three weeks to get fromMissouri to California by stagecoach.  \nButterfield's coaches went south to Santa Fe,New Mexico,and then west to California.Russell knew that it would be faster to godirectly across the center of the country.  \nRussell believed that the Pony Express wouldwork.If it was a success,he hoped the U.S.Congress would give him a contract to carry themail.The contract would be worth one milliondollars.  \nRussell convinced his partners and set towork.He had to build stations for changinghorses all the way from St.Joseph to  \nSacramento.The stations were 10 to 12 milesapart.That was short enough for the horses torun between them at top speed.  \nPresent-day states are shown.  \nTwenty-five of the 190 stations were homestations.There the riders could rest at the endof their route.The 165 smaller swing stationswere relay posts where ","cbCaire675MZ8t4X","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaire675MZ8t4X","pdf",2455139,"English","# Pony Express\n## The First Trip Begins\n## Riders, Horse Changes, and Delivery","[{\"question\":\"What did the Pony Express carry and why were telegrams important?\",\"answer\":\"It carried letters, newspapers, and telegrams. 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