The Pony Express began in 1860, six-day delivery started in 1863, and airmail became the mode in 1918.

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If Jackson has his way, savvy investors might want to sell Verizon and consider some call options on the Pony Express.

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This takes a 21st century, fast-moving global economy and turns us back to the days of the Pony Express (except there were no immigration restrictions back in 1860).

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Here is Mark Twain on the Pony Express in 1861 writing in a style that the New Yorker made its own 100 years later, all the way down to using words for numbers.

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For years he coveted a shotgun in Harrah's Pony Express Museum in Reno that had belonged to Black Bart, the 19th-century robber famous for leaving poems at the scene of stickups.

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