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By Ralph Moody

Prior to the Civil battle, the quickest mail among the West Coast and the East took nearly thirty days via stagecoach alongside a southern course via Texas. a few Californians feared their kingdom wouldn't stay within the Union, separated thus far from the loose states.

Then businessman William Russell invested in how to bring mail among San Francisco and the farthest western railroad, in Saint Joseph, Missouri—across thousand miles of mountains, deserts, and plains—guaranteed in ten days or much less. Russell employed 80 of the easiest and bravest riders, obtained 400 of the quickest and hardiest horses, and equipped relay stations alongside a significant route--through modern day Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, and Nevada, to California.

Informed through his intimate wisdom of horses and Western geography, Ralph Moody's fascinating account of the eighteen severe months that the horse exhibit operated among April 1860 and October 1861 can pay tribute to the real grit and backbone of the riders and horses of the horse Express.

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