TIL the Pony Express only existed for 18 months. The enterprise began in April of 1860 and ended in October of 1861. The subsidization and implementation of telegraph lines that began 10 weeks after the Pony Express was founded quickly made it irrelevant.
https://www.nps.gov/places/pony-express-national-historic-trail.htm
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