50 Pony Express Coloring Pages

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Description

often male riders, often horses, sometimes boys and girls, occasionally settlers, ranchers, miners, station workers and women receiving deliveries, mailbags, saddles, parcels, newspapers, lanterns, telegraph poles, wagons, wooden bridges, trading posts, stagecoaches, desert trails, prairie landscapes, snowy plains, frontier towns, mountain passes, rivers, canyons, ranches, campsites, stations and depots, mostly dynamic riding poses with galloping horses or riders securing mailbags, sometimes standing beside horses while delivering letters, changing horses or resting near campfires, compositions usually showing 1 rider and 1 horse, other scenes including 2 to 6 people with multiple horses, realistic Old West atmosphere with dusty roads, frontier buildings and dramatic weather, mostly frontal or side camera angles with occasional angled or night perspectives, representative scenes include a lone courier galloping through Wyoming dust storms, station workers sorting parcels beside waiting horses, and several riders unloading mailbags beside frontier depots.

Keywords: westward expansion, frontier, mail delivery, horseback courier, overland route, telegraph, saddlebag, relay station, prairie, desert trail, stagecoach, homestead, frontier town, pioneer, cowboy, ranch, gold rush, wagon trail, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, California

A preview of the 50 facts inside

• Did you know that the Pony Express began on April 3, 1860?
• Did you know that the Pony Express had an eastbound first ride too?

Who is this coloring book for?

• kids fascinated by frontier couriers
• children learning about mail history
• boys enthusiastic about horseback couriers
• young history club kids
• children interested in western outposts
• frontier postal history collectors
• western equestrian trail riders
• American frontier history buffs
• nineteenth-century communications researchers
• historical saddle club members

A preview of the 50 coloring pages