By Kurt Vidmer<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

In honor of the founding of the Pony Express, google has made a game from their doodle division that imitates a cowboy riding through a desert collecting letters. This is in reference to the delivery procedures that the Pony Expressed engaged in, as it was a horse driven delivery service throughout America, and as Avery<\/a> points out, particularly conjoining the delivery between Missouri and California. Google did this as part of their effort to create digital awareness of historical events in history.<\/p>\n

While playing this game, the user controls the cowboy riding a horse through the dessert collecting letters. The user must attempt to collect as many letters as they can without hitting a cactus, which in turn end the game. Although this is very simple, it subtly highlights early 19th century delivery though out the country, and potential challenges that the Pony Express could have faced. Although running into cactus’s is a metaphor for larger issues such as incline weather, hard terrain, and potential predators or hostile people, getting mail to and from places has never been an easy task. The Pony Express was very successful, as it promised speedy and efficient delivery.<\/p>\n

This relates strongly to our class because it highlights the importance of information exchange throughout the country. Due lack of water routes connecting the midwest to the far west, inland horse travel became a very efficient means to transport this information before the railroads were able to take a strong hold of westward inland travel. Also, because our class deals strongly with digital resources, google pairing historical information exchange tactics with a digital presentation is a very cool real life example of our classes real world relevance.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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