Alexander Majors

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Pony Express, Union Hill cemetery, Overland Stage Company

 

Alexander Majors

At a time of disjointed growing pains in the not-so-United States, Alexander Majors was a visionary with a mission to boost connectivity.  He played an instrumental role in the creation of the Pony Express, which before the telegraph was the most direct way to communicate with California. Though that service only lasted a year, Majors, through the Overland Stage Company and his own supply outposts, outfitted just about every wagon train heading west out of Missouri in the 1850s.  His farmhouse—one of his outfitting locations—still stands on State Line. He is buried in the Union Hill Cemetery, Kansas City, Mo.