Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

This legacy is as American as baseball and apple pie.

Its writers were fast, famous, and fearless.

It has been the subject of over a dozen films and television shows, and it became the foundation

of one of the largest banks in the world.

When it came to speed and reliability in the 1860s, you couldn't beat the pony express.

As California began to boom from the gold rush, business owners and settlers needed a

faster way to communicate with folks farther east.

At the time, letters and packages took roughly 25 days to travel by stagecoach, even longer

if going by ship.

The pony express more than half that time, with an average delivery window of about 10

days.

Not everyone used the pony express though.

It was really expensive for the average person to send a letter.

At $5 per half ounce of mail, the service was primarily used as a delivery method for

newspapers, business correspondence, and government bulletins.

Gold rush, hopefuls, just couldn't afford the speedy service.

And speedy it was.

Ten days may have been the average time it took to deliver a letter, but it certainly

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