Original sentence: It briefly brought the Atlantic and Pacific coasts ten days nearer to each other.Its reliance of the ability and endurance of the individual riders and horses over technological innovation is part of American rugged individualism.Light-weight boys, especially orphans, were the preferred riders.Messages were carried on horseback across the prairies, plains, deserts, and mountains of the western United States.Since its replacement by the First Transcontinental Railroad and the telegraph, the Pony Express has joined the romance of the American West
Edited sentence: It brought the Atlantic and Pacific coasts ten days nearer to each other.It, in fact, proved the feasibility of a transcontinental road and.Messages were carried swiftly on horseback across the plains and deserts, and over the mountains of the Far West.The Pony Express marked the highest development in overland travel prior.Yet it was of the greatest importance in binding the East and West together at a time when overland travel was slow and cumbersome, and when a great national crisis made the rapid communication of news between these sections a necessity.demonstrated that such a line could be built and operated continuously.the year around - a feat that had previously been regarded as impossible.to the coming of the transcontinental railroad, which it preceded by nine years