(West) Pony Express Route... ~Catalog 52~ Shows the roads and railroads

Shows the roads and railroads as well

and manuscript notation

Inset shows Tasmani or Van Diemens Land

Has inset for Southern Africa

(West) Pony Express Route... ~Catalog 52~ Shows the roads and railroads(West) Pony Express Route April 3, 1860 October 24, 1861 Perhaps the first American information super highway, it was working both day and night, year round. A system of riders changing horses every ten or so miles made it possible to get information from St Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California in ten days, bringing the far west much closer to the east. This famous service is here commemorated by the Union Pacific, in a handsome map of the route