The Pony Express

Historical marker location:

720 Sheridan Avenue, Cody, Wyoming

( Marker can be reached from Sheridan Avenue near 8th Street, on the left when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1961

1860-1861 -- 1960-1961. Young Buffalo Bill Cody.

Wyoming was the location of the world's first commercial oil well, which was drilled in 1859 near present-day Casper.