A kind of postal service using horse riders to carry mail during the American Westward expansion. The service took about 10 days to complete the 3,200 km distance from St. Joseph, Missouri to San Francisco, California, with relay points set up about every 16 km. The fare was $5 per ounce. Although the service is well known, it was a temporary business before the completion of telegraph communication between the East and West, and lasted only a year and a half, from April 1860 to October 1861. [Okada Yasuo] Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information |
アメリカ西部開拓期に,郵便物を運ぶために設けられた駅伝の早馬騎手による一種の飛脚。ミズーリ州セント・ジョゼフからカリフォルニア州サンフランシスコまでの約3200kmの間,約16kmごとに中継点をおき,早馬で約10日間で結んだ。料金は1オンスあたり5ドルであった。その名は有名であるが,東西間の電信連絡が完成する以前の一時的事業であり,1860年4月から61年10月までの1年半しか続かなかった。【岡田 泰男】
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