It would be useful to supply applicants with information about 2 other riders.  Have this written information available with a paragraph about each rider, pictures are welcome. 

The Pony Express lasted 18 months.  The telegraph system was invented and offered a fasterway to send messages and the Pony Express was no longer needed.
Read more aboutthe invention of the telegraph:
 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sfbmhtml/sfbmtelessay.html

Here is a great picture of the earliest telegraphs
 http://www.inventorsmuseum.com/telegraph.htm
 

How did the invention of the telegraph change communication?
Read about the  very first message and why people feared this new  technology.
 http://www.inventorsmuseum.com/telegraph.htm
 
 

LINKS

Founding of the Pony Express
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/pxpress.html

Hollenberg Station
http://www.kshs.org/places/hollenbg.htm

The Journey Begins
http://www.xphomestation.com/frm-riders.html

Others Who Rode
http://www.xphomestation.com/frm-others.html

Pony Express History
http://www.ukans.edu/heritage/trails/pehist.html

Pony Express Information
http://www.americanwest.com/trails/pages/ponyexp1.htm

Pony Express Museum
http://www.ci.st-joseph.mo.us/pony.html

Pony Express Museum
http://www.ponyexpress.org/

Pony Express National Historic Trail
http://www.nps.gov/poex/

Pony Express Stations Across America
http://www.ponyexpress.org/stations.htm

Pony Express History
http://www.ponyexpress.org/history.htm

Pony Express Home Station
http://www.xphomestation.com/

Pony Express Information
http://www.americanwest.com/trails/pages/ponyexp1.htm

Pony Express Museum
http://www.ponyexpress.org/

Pony Express National Historic Trail
http://www.nps.gov/poex/

Pony Express: People Places Vocabulary and Dates
http://www.xphomestation.com/frm-riders.html

Pony Express Riders
http://www.ponyexpress.org/pony%20riders.htm

Pony Express Riders
http://www.xphomestation.com/frm-riders.html

Pony Express Routes
http://www.xphomestation.com/frm-xpsta.html

Regions
 http://missouritourism.org/content/ponyexpress.cfm

Pony Express Stations in White Pine County, Nevada
http://www.webpanda.com/white_pine_county/historical_society/pony_exp.htm

Pony Express Station Keepers
http://www.xphomestation.com/frm-riders.html

A Short History of the Pony Express and Overland Mailing: White Pine Co., Nevada
http://www.webpanda.com/white_pine_county/historical_society/ponyexpress/ponyhist.htm

When the Pony Express was in Vogue
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/pxpress.html