Editing Pony Express (section)

==In popular culture==
The continued remembrance and popularity of the Pony Express can be linked to [[Buffalo Bill Cody]], his autobiographies, and his [[Wild West Show]]. The first book dedicated solely to the Pony Express was not published until 1900.<ref name="Warren">
{{cite book
|last=Warren
|first=Louis S.
|year=2005
|title=Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2lgq-ebTZfcC&pg=PP1
|publisher=Knopf
|edition=1st
|isbn=978-0-375-41216-5
}}</ref> However, in his first autobiography, published in 1879, Cody claims to have been an Express rider.<ref>
{{cite book
|last=Cody
|first=William F
|author-link=Buffalo Bill
|title=The Life of Honorable William F. Cody
|date=June 2004
|publisher=Kessinger
|isbn=978-1-4191-6960-1
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VpBpTb5JmKQC&pg=PP1
|access-date=December 10, 2012
}}</ref><ref>
{{cite book
|last=Cody
|first=William F
|author-link=Buffalo Bill
|title=The Life and Adventures of "Buffalo Bill" Colonel William F. Cody
|year=1917
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rbws9JBBr9AC&pg=PP1
|access-date=December 10, 2012
}}</ref> While this claim has recently come under dispute,<ref name="Warren" /> his show became the "primary keeper of the pony legend" when it premiered as a scene in the Wild West Show.<ref name="Warren" />

===Film===
* ''[[The Pony Express (1925 film)|The Pony Express]]'' (1925)<ref>{{IMDb title|qid=Q7757725|id=tt0016235|title=The Pony Express}}</ref>
* ''[[Winds of the Wasteland]]'' (1936)<ref>{{Citation|last=Wright|first=Mack V.|title=Winds of the Wasteland|date=1936-07-06|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028510/|type=Comedy, Romance, Western|others=John Wayne, Phyllis Fraser, Lew Kelly, Douglas Cosgrove|publisher=Paul Malvern Productions|access-date=2020-09-01}}</ref>
* ''[[Frontier Pony Express]]'' (1939)<ref>{{IMDb title|qid=Q5506033|id=tt0031347|title=Frontier Pony Express}}</ref>
* ''Pony Express Days'' (short) (1940)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/400526/pony-express-days|title = Pony Express Days}}</ref>
* ''[[Pony Post]]'' (1940)<ref>{{IMDb title|qid=Q63183567|id=tt0032923|title=Pony Post}}</ref>
* ''Saddle Silly'' (1941)
* ''[[Plainsman and the Lady]]'' (1946)<ref>{{IMDb title|qid=Q21527960|id=tt0038846|title=Plainsman and the Lady}}</ref>
* ''[[Pony Express (film)|Pony Express]]'' (1953)<ref>{{IMDb title|qid=Q3283680|id=tt0046198|title=Pony Express}}</ref>
* ''[[Last of the Pony Riders]]'' (1953)<ref>{{IMDb title|qid=Q15631711|id=tt0045987|title=Last of the Pony Riders}}</ref>
* ''[[Pony Express Rider|The Pony Express Rider]]'' (1976)<ref>{{IMDb title|qid=Q84366586|id=tt0075087|title=The Pony Express Rider}}</ref>
* ''Pony Express Rider'' (1996)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0221488/|title = Pony Express Rider|website = [[IMDb]]}}</ref>
* ''Spirit of the Pony Express'' (2012)<ref>{{IMDb title|qid=Q130302086|id=tt1583724|title=Spirit of the Pony Express}}</ref>

===Television===
* ''[[The Range Rider]]'' (1951–1953) season-one episode "The Last of the Pony Express"<ref>{{IMDb title|qid=Q130302089|id=tt0682660|title=The Range Rider}}</ref>
* ''[[Crossroad Avenger]]'' (1953) 
* ''[[Pony Express (TV series)|Pony Express]]'' (1959–1960)<ref>{{IMDb title|qid=Q3908316|id=tt0159903|title=Pony Express}}</ref>
* ''[[Bonanza]]'' (1959–1973) season seven, two-part episode "Ride the Wind"<ref>{{IMDb title|qid=Q114522808|id=tt0529636|title=noitalics|description="Ride the Wind" pt. 1}}</ref><ref>{{IMDb title|qid=Q114540495|id=tt0529637|title=noitalics|description="Ride the Wind" pt. 2}}</ref>
* ''[[The Young Riders]]'' (1989–1992)
* ''[[Into the West (miniseries)|Into the West]]'' (2005)
* ''[[My Little Pony: Equestria Girls]]'' (2013)
* ''[[Legends of the Pony Express]]'' (2024)
'''Comic books'''

* Lucky Luke: The Pony Express (1988)

=== Video Games ===

* An intergalactic mail delivery version of the Pony Express is central to the plot of the space-based horror game [[Mouthwashing (video game)|Mouthwashing]], in which it is depicts as a soulless corporation, the last delivery service using human-piloted spaceships, sending its last crew on a year-long delivery mission before going bankrupt.