St. Joseph, MO Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Sixty miles north of Kansas City, ST JOSEPH boomed as a supply depot for the California Gold Rush, and today is still a busy manufacturing town. For a brief eighteen months, starting in 1860, it was the home of the legendary Pony Express , which took ten days to deliver mail all the way to Sacramento, California, by continuous horseback relay. The Pony Express was a financial disaster, driven out of business by its inability to compete with the transcontinental telegraph, but riders such as Buffalo Bill Cody went on to become legends. Charlie Miller, the last of the riders, rode from New York to San Francisco in 1931, … more »