Timeline Tuesday 3 April 1860

Events on Tuesday 3 April 1860 1

• 1860 Pony Express Begins Service Fast horseback mail relay opens between Missouri and California The Pony Express began carrying mail between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California, on 3 April 1860, using relays of horseback riders to cut delivery time to about ten days. It became a celebrated symbol of the American West despite operating for only about eighteen months before the transcontinental telegraph made it obsolete.