Pony Express Rider - Stateline, NV
N 38° 57.608 W 119° 56.475
11S E 245145 N 4316467
This monument depicts a Pony Express Rider in the midst of doing his duty. It is located outside Harrah's Casino in Stateline, Nevada.
Waymark Code: WMDW3V
Location: Nevada, United States
Date Posted: 02/29/2012
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While this certainly wasn't a job you could make a career out of, for a few short years it was a job that was of critical importance to the western United States. This rider is depicted as doing just what an actual rider would, racing from one Pony Express Station to the next.
This statue of a Pony Express Rider, situated in front of Harrah's Casino, Stateline, Nevada, commemorates the site of Friday's Station which was located about a mile east. To commemorate the Pony Express and its intrepid riders, Harrah's commissioned a statue by sculptor Dr. Avard Fairbanks. It was designed with Sierra Nevada history and environment as a theme. This heroic-sized bronze statue of a rider in full gallop was cast in Pietrasanta, Italy, and now stands in a park like setting at the hotel entrance.
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