(MSC News)--Hoofbeats of history will echo across the historic Pony Express Trail, beginning next week.
Riders and horses of the National Pony Express Association will carry commemorative letters and personal mail by horse and rider relays from the Missouri River to the Sacramento River, beginning Monday, June 17 through June 27.
The first rider will leave the Patee House at Saint Joseph, Missouri Monday afternoon at 3:00, with the last rider arriving in Old Sacramento, California on June 27.
The route will be over the Pony Express National Historic Trail, a component of the National Trails System, administered by the National Park Service. The event will travel 1,966 miles from Missouri, through Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and Nevada to California.
Six hundred riders from the eight State Divisions will ride in relays of one to five miles each, taking turns carrying the mail.
The Re-ride is a 10 day, 24 hour event honoring the 164th anniversary of the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company which carried letters and telegrams from April 1860 to November 1861, on the central route through Salt Lake.
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