The Pony Express (1907 film)
The Pony Express is an American silent film produced by Kalem Company and directed by Sidney Olcott with Sidney Olcott, Robert Vignola and Joe Santley in the leading roles.
Cody of the Pony Express
Cody of the Pony Express( 1950) is the 42nd serial released by Columbia Pictures.
Pony Express (film)
Pony Express is a 1953 American western film directed by Jerry Hopper and starring Charlton Heston as Buffalo Bill, Forrest Tucker as Wild Bill Hickok, Jan Sterling as a Calamity Jane- type character, and Rhonda Fleming that was filmed in Kanab, Utah.
The story is largely based on the 1925 silent film" The Pony Express" and tells a completely imaginary account of the formation of the Pony Express rapid transcontinental mail delivery in the United States in 1860- 1861.
The picture gives no credit to the real founders of the Pony Express.
Buffalo Bill Cody did ride for them —he signed up when he was 15 years old.
The Pony Express (1925 film)
The Pony Express is a 1925 American silent Western film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
The film was directed by James Cruze and starred his wife, Betty Compson, along with Ricardo Cortez, Wallace Beery, and George Bancroft.
Prints of this film survive, and it has been released on DVD.
Johnny Fry
Johnny Fry
( 1840 – October 6, 1863) was the first" official" westbound rider of the Pony Express.
Fry was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky to John Fry and Mary Fry.
Mary moved with her son and new husband Benjamin Wells to Rushville, Missouri around 1857.
Fry, who weighed less than 120 pounds, was assigned to the first leg of the westbound route of the Pony Express delivering it from the stables in St. Joseph, Missouri a few blocks to a ferry across the Missouri River before carrying it on to Seneca, Kansas.
Ads for the Pony Express said," Wiry young men, preferably orphans to ride 20 miles ..."
While there are no photographs of the start of the Pony Express, the old tin-type of Johnny Fry standing next to Johnson William Richardson in a sailor's hat and jacket, with Charlie Cliff and his brother Gus Cliff pictures the riders hired by Lewis for Russell, Majors, and Waddell.
The start of the Pony Express was delayed two hours to 7:15 p.m. because the courier from the East Coast had missed a train connection.
Fry was the scheduled official first rider on April 3, 1860.
Years later, a W. B. Richardson( 1851–1946) claimed to be the Pony Express rider denied the honor, in an article titled" Uncle Billy Richardson, 91 Today, Disclaims Fame."
W. B., who would have been about nine or ten years old the day of the historic ride, boasts that his half- brother Paul Coburn, who was the station manager," accidentally" threw the" mail pouch" on his pony instead of Fry's horse and so he made the ride.
Supposedly, Richardson rode the first blocks from the stables to the river, where the pouch was handed to Fry, who rode the ferry to Elwood, Kansas and then took it on to Seneca, Kansas.
Fry was to deliver the first eastbound mail back to St. Joseph.
W. B. Richardson's recollection contradicts all historical accounts.
Clearly, as the accompanying picture shows, J. W. Richardson, the actual rider, was not W. B. Richardson, a nine- or ten- year- old boy, but a grown man when he was hired by Lewis for Russell, Majors, and Waddell.
He rode for the company until the Transcontinental Telegraph went into service.
According to his relatives, he rode on to Fort Laramie and died later that year.
Local lore says that the do nut was invented as a cake for Fry to eat, passed to him by young ladies, as he rode past their homes.
After the Pony Express went out of business in October 1861, due to the advent of the transcontinental telegraph, Fry joined the Union Army and was killed by Quantrill's Raiders in the Battle of Baxter Springs.
Robert Haslam (Pony Express)
Robert" Pony Bob" Haslam( January 1840, London, England – February 29, 1912, Chicago, Illinois) was a Pony Express rider in the American Old West.
He came to the United States as a teenager and was hired by Bolivar Roberts, helped build the stations, and was assigned the run from Friday's Station( State Line) to Buckland Station near Fort Churchill, 75 miles to the east.
Perhaps his greatest ride, 120 miles in 8 hours and 20 minutes while wounded, was an important contribution to the fastest trip ever made by the Pony Express.
The message carried was Abraham Lincoln's Inaugural Address.
After the Pony Express, Haslam returned as an employee of Wells, Fargo& Company, which operated its own enterprise between San Francisco and Virginia City.
He later served as a Deputy United States Marshall in Salt Lake City.
In his final years he worked in the Hotel Congress in Chicago.
He made a personal business card with a sketch of himself as a Pony Express rider at the age of twenty and entertained guests with stories of his adventures.
Haslam is credited with having made the longest round trip ride of the Pony Express.
He had received the eastbound mail( probably the May 10 mail from San Francisco) at Friday's Station.
At Buckland's Station his relief rider was so badly frightened over the Indian threat that he refused to take the mail.
Haslam agreed to take the mail all the way to Smith's Creek for a total distance of 190 miles without a rest.
After a rest of nine hours, he retraced his route with the westbound mail.
At Cold Springs he found that Indians had raided the place, killing the station keeper and running off all of the stock.
Finally he reached Buckland's Station, completing a 380- mile round trip, the longest on record for the Pony Express.
Haslam continued to work as a rider for Wells Fargo and Company after the U.S. Civil War, scouted for the U.S. Army well into his fifties, and later accompanied his good friend Buffalo Bill Cody on a diplomatic mission to negotiate the surrender of Chief Sitting Bull in December 1890.
He drifted in and out of public mention but eventually died in Chicago during the winter of 1912( age 72) in deep poverty after suffering a stroke.
It is reported that Buffalo Bill paid for Pony Bob's headstone at Mount Greenwood Cemetery on Chicago's far south side; however, the business records indicate it was paid for by a family member.
A map to the grave site is available from the cemetery office during regular business hours( all week, 9:00 AM- 4:00 PM).
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Cloy Mattox
Cloy Mitchell Mattox (November 24, 1902 – August 3, 1985) nicknamed "Monk", was an American Major League Baseball catcher.
He played for the Philadelphia Athletics during the season.
He played college football with Frank Peake as part of the Pony Express backfield of Virginia Tech.
James Cruze
James Cruze (born Jens Vera Cruz Bosen, March 27, 1884 near Ogden, Utah – August 3, 1942 in Hollywood, California) was a silent film actor and film director.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.

Question: Where was the director of film The Pony Express (1925 Film) born?
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