Mail was carried from East to West and back again by rhe famous Pony Express.Horses were kept at different places;one man rode with a bagof letters for about 120 kilometresand then gave it to another man.In this way,letters only took about ten days to cross the country. One very well know rider was Buffalo Bill Cody.He later became asoldier and a hunter; they say that he shor 4,280 buffalo in one year! In the 1880s,Buffalo Bill started his Wild West Show,a kind of travelling theatre,with the famous cowgirl Annie Oakley.
Buffalo Bill