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drives Lucky Luke , westerns fans are familiar with this quick delivery service mail in the United States. The arrival of the Pony Express in the major western plains announced a heartache, death, inheritance, impeachment, war or a victory … Crossing the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevada St. Joseph to Sacramento, this system was to pull the western United States to its geographic isolation. Appeared before the telegraph, it became vital to the commitment of California closely with the just before the Civil War Union. This service linked the cities of St. Joseph (Missouri) and Sacramento (California). There were about 160 relays, spaced 5 to 20 miles (about 8 to 32 kilometers), the distance that could cover in one sitting a galloping horse. Each relay rider changed horses. Several hundred horses were available. The distance traveled by the entire system was 250 miles (more than 400 kilometers) per 24 hours.

Title 97th album Lucky Luke

The riders of the Pony Express were known for their agility and speed. Nothing and no one could distract them from their mission. They flattered always arrive on time and sometimes even ahead. About 400, they carried on their backs up to 75 pounds of mail or parcels. Their weight must not exceed 56.7 kg to avoid burdening their mounts. The adventure of the Pony Express is inseparable from the conquest of the American West. Like her, she extols the heroes, freedom, open spaces and individual performance adventurers …

The origin of the creation of this “express mail” was told in the 97th album Lucky Luke . Morris, Xavier Fauche and Jean Léturgie have a “child in the back” of history by imagining that the man who shoots faster than his shadow was responsible for training the riders while the Pacific Railways contrived to put a spoke in the wheels of this initiative to be free competition and to recover a substantial premium.

The company has never been profitable, especially due to the inability to win the contract with the federal government for the delivery of mail, attributed to the Butterfield Overland Mail Company, a coach transport company, following the opening of the first telegraph service (First Transcontinental Telegraph) to California in 1861, allowing almost instant communications. It was sold in 1862 to Ben Holladay, a businessman. In spite of its short life, the Pony Express is permanently associated with myths and American legends. This famous post this year its 155th anniversary, and the search engine Google devotes this Tuesday, April 14 a doodle … A game allows you to accumulate points as you add letters in your bag without falling into the traps that you are tense …

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