Discovering the Changing American West Along the Pony Express Trail

Photo caption: Grant, with rancher Larry Chamberlain, near Douglas, Wy. Chamberlain is one of many private landowners who cares for former Pony Express stations like the La Prele. Photo credit: Claire Antoszewski. Article by Jon Gugala. Inside Hook – September 25, 2023.

Agriculture consolidation, small-town decline and water scarcity are changing the composition of the country west of the Mississippi River

Will Grant, author of The Last Ride of the Pony Express, is a horseman through and through. The Santa Fe, NM, resident began riding at age two and now, at 43, one could say that his is a life spent in the saddle. So when a former editor encouraged him to look into the fabled 2,000-mile trail, which began in St. Joseph, MO, and ended in Sacramento, CA, there was only one way Grant considered traveling. […]

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