1. They were the daring young riders of the pony express.

2. The completion of the telegraph put the Pony Express out of business as it could provide much faster east–west communication.

3. For many years, the West was Aswarm with old men who claimed to be "the last of the Pony Express riders."

4. Even while North and South were being torn apart East and West had been drawn together by the Pony Express the most daring mail route in history.

5. Cody’s cunning was the centrepiece of another often-recounted episode in which, called upon to deliver a large sum of money and fearing that he would be robbed, he hid the currency under his saddle blanket and stuffed paper into his Pony Express mochila (saddlebag)