PONY EXPRESS TRAIL HISTORY Visit Fort Churchill & Buckland Station in Northwest Nevada A Love Your Parks Tour “Pony Express Trail” story as assigned by Melinda Taylor, Steven & Greg Ward, of Yerington Inn Park ranger Kristin Sanderson shares some of the Pony Express history that occurred at Fort Churchill and Buckland Station. Listen here in the YouTube player or download the podcast on Podbean or SoundCloud.
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From April in 1860, young men once rode horses In Northwest Nevada, you can visit Fort Churchill and Buckland Station, just about half an hour to carry mail from Missouri to California in the North of Yerington on US Route 95 ALT. Both the unprecedented time of only 10 days. This relay system was the most direct and practical means fort and the station are stops on the Pony Express National Historic Trail and the California of east-west communications before the telegraph just 19 months after the Pony Express National Historic Trail. Fort Churchill is now a Nevada State Park, which includes Buckland Service began. The Pony Express National Station. Buckland Station was a way station for Historic Trail covers the Pony Express route in the Overland Stage Company on the Overland eight states, (California, Colorado, Kansas, Route. Missouri, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming), and includes auto-touring, interpretive sites, hiking, Continued on Next Page… biking or horseback riding trail segments, visiting PAGE 27
