1. By: Emily Choate, Jennifer Andrades, Hunter Kimrey, and Katie Skinner

2. The Pony Express Fast mail service Crossing the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California April 1860 to October 1861 William Cody, Robert Haslam, Jack Keetley are some of the more famous Pony Express At this time was the fastest way to send messages and helped tell people about the land, which in turn inspired them to move west.

3. Pony Express’s 1 st ride West Trip left St. Joseph on April 3, 1860 Arrived in San Francisco, California on April 14 These letters were sent under cover from the East to St. Joseph, never directly entered the U.S. mail system No single letter from this trip is known to exist today

4. The Pony Express Pony Express Postmark

5. Telegraph It was a rather expensive means of communication that mostly appealed to big business and government. Telegraph lines followed the westward expansion of the railroad across North America. They made it possible to communicate quickly over vast distances and they linked far-flung settlements with population centers back east. This helped foster a stronger sense of national identity and underscored the need for more standardization and uniformity.

6. Telegraph Optical telegraph Morse telegraph

7. Stagecoaches Mostly for passenger travel westward, and mail carriers In coaches with three bench seats, the passengers rode three abreast squeezed into a space of 15 inches apiece. Back and middle rows, both faced forward, and a forward row, faced rearward. Those in the forward and middle rows had to ride with their knees dovetailed. On the center seat passengers had only a leather strap to support their backs on a long journey. Passengers rode with baggage on their laps and sometimes mail pouches beneath their feet. Some travelers suffered from motion sickness due to the motion of the coaches, aggravated when the coach traveled over a section of rough road, adding the torment of bouncing on the hard seat, against the roof, or against the side of the coach.

8. Stagecoach Wells Fargo U.S. Mail service

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