Wanted!
The Start Up
People/Places
It Failed
Radom
100
Young, skinny and _____________ fellows were wanted.
What is Wiry?
100
The year the Pony Express rider left St. Joseph, Missouri.
What is 1860?
100
A famous messenger for the Pony Express.
Who is John Fry or Pony Bob
100
One reason the Pony Express shut down.
What is:
-No profits
-Expensive for citizens
-telegraph lines
-The Pyramid Lake War
100
Weapons riders ended up carrying?
What is one gun and a knife
200
The age requirement to be a rider for the Pony Express.
What is under 18?
200
The number of months did the Pony Express went on for.
What are 18 months?
200
Who is William H. Russell?
200
Cost to mail a letter.
What is $5 an ounce?
200
Leather skirt placed on horse
What is a mochilla?
300
The wages per month for a rider.
What is $100 to $150?
300
The number of horses needed.
What are 400 horses?
300
Who is Alexander Majors?
300
The reduced price to mail a letter.
What is $1 an ounce?
300
Riders rode about this many miles a day.
What is 100 miles.
400
Creator of the Pony Express "oath".
Who is Alexander Majors?
400
Only two minutes.
What is the time given at stations to switch horses?
400
Who is William B. Waddel?
400
The total cost of equipment and resources.
What is $700,000?
400
October 6, 1861
What is the day the Pony Express officially ended?
500
Every ___________ was a station to switch riders and/or horses.
What are 10 miles?
500
The name of the large mail service that came before the Pony Express.
What is the Butterfield mail company?
500
The state all the founders lived at one point.
What is Missouri?
500
A US scientist that created the morse system.
Who is Samuel Morse?
500
One thing the Pony Express never made.
What is a profit.