Pony Express stations were placed 10 to 15 miles apart. The riders rode them at. full gallop which was up to 15 miles. per hour (depending on the horse and terrain- I guess). If a conestoga wagon made. 15 miles in a day they made good time. I imagine a cattle drive only made about 15. miles in a day too.
MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin has died at the age of 76, the Kremlin said on Monday. Yeltsin, who had suffered health problems since resigning from office on December 31, 1999, suffered sudden heart failure, medical sources told Russia's Interfax news agency.
The Russian Imperial Romanov family and all those who chose to accompany them into imprisonment â notably Eugene Botkin, Anna Demidova, Alexei Trupp and Ivan Kharitonov â were shot, bayoneted and clubbed to death in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16-17 July 1918. The Tsar and his family were killed by Bolshevik troops led by Yakov Yurovsky under the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet and according to instructions by Lenin, Yakov Sverdlov and Felix Dzerzhinsky. Their bodies were then ...