LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Many people still visit the original Pony Express station in Gothenburg to learn about the colorful history surrounding the effort to get mail from St. Joseph, Missouri to ...

In Part 3 of my series on eastern Nevada Pony Express Stations, I described Mountain Springs Station (7), Ruby Valley Station (8), and Jacob’s Well Station (9). The numbers in parenthesis indicate the ...

Roadside oases for those carrying goods have been around longer than the combustion engine. However, once semitrucks became the backbone of U.S. freight, truck stops evolved into a national network, ...

Eight miles may not seem like a great distance to a motorist or bicyclist, but to pooped-out horses who raced daily over Echo Summit carrying bags of mail, the difference meant extra fuel-up time at ...

The Pony Express Trail Association will dedicate one of its granite Pony Express Station markers at 3 p.m. Sept. 8 at the foot of Hawley Grade. The monument has an engraved short history about the ...

Across the West are remnants of historic trails, wagon roads, emigrant routes and what’s left of dreams in dry places. In the 19th century, Americans traversed our country on horseback and in wagons, ...