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In 1860 and 1861, traffic on the Oregon Trail included freight wagons, stagecoaches, emigrants, soldiers, Indians, and the Pony Express rider streaking through Scotts Bluff. Mark Twain saw the Pony Express pass from a stagecoach a few miles from here and recalled the rider and horse bursting past and swinging away “like a belated fragment of a storm!” The Pony Express operated for only a year and a half, and in October 1861 the first transcontinental telegraph connected through here to California, bringing the Pony Express era to an end.
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Gering, Nebraska · United States
