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Pony riders found Solano shortcut / Bowen, Jerry [72] [WAYITWAS-2001-72]
Perhaps nothing encites more enthusiasm about the history of the West than the daring adventures of the young men who rode for the Pony Express.
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Pony Express riders rode through Solano / Delaplane, Kristin [337] [ECHOS-1997-337]
In nearly all the written records about the Pony Express of the 1800s, the fact that the riders took the stagecoach trail from Sacramento to Benicia is rarely documented. This route was not on the riders' regular run, but when they missed the steamer connection to San Francisco from Sacramento, which they did 19 times, they took this alternate route, riding through Solano County at their legendary breakneck speeds.
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1860

Picture of splice and original telegraph wire found near the Pony Express Trail in eastern Nevada
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Colorful adventurer worked the spectrum from druggist to a blockade runner / Bowen, Jerry [47] [WAYITWAS-2000-47]
One of the lesser known characters that once lived in Vaca Valley was a man known as Capt. Richard H. Chinn. What little is known about him came mostly from stories he told about his life to friends [...]
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