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Description
This circa 1996 postcard shows the Pony Express monument at the northeast corner of Second and K streets at Old Sacramento State Historic Park. In the background are, left to right, the Heyward Building and the B.F. Hastings Building. The printed description on the back of this postcard reads, "The first mail rider for the Pony Express left on April 4, 1860 at 2:45 a.m. to start the mail on its route to St. Joseph, Missouri. The run was a total of 1,966 miles. The Pony Express statue marks the western most point of the mail run."
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