Sunstone Mormon History Podcast

Episode 164: Mormon Mail and the Pony Express

May 8, 2026·1h 6m
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Before texts, tracking numbers, and two-day shipping, a letter could take months to cross the continent, assuming it arrived at all. In this episode, Lindsay and Bryan saddle up for the tangled story of Mormons, mail, freighting, and power in the American West, from Brigham Young’s ambitious Y.X. Company and the political chaos of the …

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