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Pony Express

former mail service in the Western United States
Organization mail Q859130
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Summary

Pony Express is a mail[1]. It draws 9,200 Wikipedia views per month (mail category, ranking #2 of 7).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: United States[3]
  • Instance of: enterprise[4]
  • Founder: William Hepburn Russell[5], Alexander Majors[6], William B. Waddell[7]
  • Commons category: Pony Express[8]
  • Industry: mail[9]
  • Inception: 1860[10]
  • Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 1861[11]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Pony Express[12]
  • Described at URL: https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4051p.tr000221/?r=0.264,-0.02,0.643,0.402,0[13]
  • Described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14], New International Encyclopedia[15]
  • Replaced by: United States transcontinental telegraph line[16]
  • Native label: Pony Express[17]

Why It Matters

Pony Express has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6d ago · Wowo2024 · 2026-10-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 36
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'ast', 'bg', 'br', 'ca', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'eu', 'fa', 'fi',
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 42.21333333333333, 'lon': -104.51722222222222}
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Coordinate location: 42°12'48"N, 104°31'2"W"
  2. 5w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → pony-express
    Subclass of → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: pony-express, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289950794|pony express (#289950794)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]"
  3. 14w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Continent → —
    End time → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ End time: 1861"
  4. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Founder → William Hepburn Russell, Alexander Majors, William B. Waddell
    Country → —
    Dissolved, abolished or demolished date → +1861-00-00T00:00:00Z
    End time → —
    + 18 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007563138405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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