THE PONY EXPRESS

THE PONY EXPRESS

I can remember as a child loving the Pony Express. The ideas of danger, speed, and horses fueled my very active imagination. After wrapping up the Civil War with Callie recently, I realized we had missed this important piece in our country's history! The Pony Express was only in existence from 1860-1861 before the land was stretched with telegraph cables and train tracks. This was a time of high adventure, courage, and perseverance. It was time for us to put the history mobile of learning in reverse and pick up what we had missed.

In addition, we took a little look at the prairie - what it looks like, the kind of animals we find, and what eats what.

We wrapped it up with mapping and time lining.

I may have completed it all by showing her some clips from The Young Riders TV drama from my high school years!