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Forming the Pony Express

October 5th, 2009

russellmajorswaddellThey are three names etched in the history of western exploration and settlement: Russell, Majors and Waddell. Here’s one of their ancestors; a woman who can still share much of the story of how these three men sought to tame the west…

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