Then, for a while, he was dashing over the plains as a pony-express rider.

There was talk, too, of a pony-express, to bring them mail from the Missouri in six days; and a few visionaries were prophesying that a railroad would one day come by them.

Such was the method employed by our own pony-express riders.

By 1857 stage-coaches were crossing the plains and the pony-express riders were carrying the mail.