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    The Pony Express

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    carrying service called Central Overland California and Pike 's Peak Express Company, more notoriously known as The Pony Express, was established by three business partners. It was a relay race on horses from station to station, carrying mail bags as they went. Being a dangerous job, it required the bravest and most experienced young riders they could find. The founding of The Pony Express was a useful resource in delivering mail regardless of the struggles the riders faced, such as Indians, weather

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    The Pony Express

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    The Pony Express was an extremely important event in history for three profoundly reasons. All together, it helped the farther east states to keep in contact with the West with all the news of what was happening, important documents, and sometimes small packages and family letters that were being sent from different states. It helped for new and more improved ideas of how could the spreading of news could be spread faster and safer. The good reason of keeping all the states in contact with all

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    The Pony Express

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    a mail carrying service called Central Overland California and Pike 's Peak Express Company, although notorious as The Pony Express, was established by three business partners. It was a relay race on horses from station to station, carrying mail bags as they went. Being a dangerous job, it required the bravest and most experienced riders they could find. The founding of The Pony Express was a useful resource in delivering mail regardless of the struggles the riders faced, such as, Indians, weather

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    Notes On The Pony Express

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    pg.1 The Pony Express The Pony Express was an extremely important event in history for three profoundly good reasons. All together, it helped the farther east states to keep in contact with the West, news of what was happening, important documents, sometimes small packages and family letters were being sent to different states, and it helped for new and more improved ideas of how could the spreading of news could be spread faster and safer. The good reason of keeping all the states in

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    The Red Pony Analysis

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    with animals that ended up coming very close to his heart. The Red Pony, written by John steinbeck is about a young boy named Jody Tiflin who adventures through is life. Jody is grateful to have a pony that becomes very important to him in the novel. However he begins to lose that pony, and go through some tough situations. The main character Jody changes and grows from childhood to adolescence, by being responsible for the pony, going through the death with Gabilan, and also trying to believe in

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    Setting Of The Red Pony

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    The classic novel, The Red Pony, is written by John Steinbeck. This novel is of the historical fiction genre. This means that the exact things in the novel did not happen and the characters are not real. Although the characters are not real, the types of things happening in the novel did occur in the time period the book was written. The Red Pony was first published in the year 1932. Setting The novel, The Red Pony, takes place mainly on a ranch in Salinas California. It is very near the Gabilan

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    Madisyn Sommer Book Title: The Red Pony Author: John Steinbeck Warning spoilers!! Genre: The Red Pony has a fiction and short story genre. Plot Summary: The Gift A ten-year-old boy, Jody, receives a pony from his father Carl Tiflin. Jody takes care of this Pony with the help of the ranch’s employed hand Billy Buck. Billy spends his time teaching Jody how to take care of his horse, Gibilan. Jody puts every morning into brushing it and every afternoon when he comes home from school to training it

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    take up to 21 days to get a letter to someone” (Pony Express). In the 1860’s a group of men invented a faster mail delivery service called the Pony Express. The Pony express transformed the ingenuity of America by the delivery of a faster mail service and the legend of the men crossing through dangerous territory. “The Pony Express was founded by William Russell, William Waddell, and Alexander Majors” (Bradley). The route that the men took on the Pony Express went from St.

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    The Pony Express The Pony Express was an extremely important event in history for three profoundly reasons. All together, it helped the farther east states to keep in contact with the West with all the news of what was happening, important documents, and sometimes small packages and family letters that were being sent from different states. It helped for new and more improved ideas of how could the spreading of news could be spread faster and safer. The good reason of keeping all the states

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    The original name of the pony express was The Central Overland, California and Pikes Peak Express Company. People needed a fast mail service.The persons who took the mail needed to communicate with the west faster, get across to a 2000 mile trail, and go up mountains and other long parts that was hard for them. That when the pony express began to opened on April 3,1860.the founders of the pony express were William H, Russell, William B, Waddell, and Alexander. At first, mail was carried once a week

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