Alexander Majors

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Alexander Majors

1814–1900

Best known as a co-founder of the Pony Express, this frontier businessman helped shape overland freight and mail service in the American West. His life stretched from a log-cabin childhood in Kentucky to the fast-moving world of trails, stage routes, and western expansion.

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Seventy Years on the Frontier

Seventy Years on the Frontier

by Alexander Majors

About the author

Born in Kentucky on October 4, 1814, and raised in Missouri, Alexander Majors grew up doing hard physical work from a young age. He later became a successful freighting businessman, moving supplies and goods across long western routes at a time when overland transport was difficult, dangerous, and essential.

Majors is most often remembered for helping found the Pony Express with William Hepburn Russell and William B. Waddell. Although the service itself was short-lived, it became one of the most enduring symbols of speed, risk, and communication on the American frontier.

He died on January 13, 1900. Today, Majors remains closely linked with the story of westward expansion and the era of wagon freighting, stage travel, and early express mail in the United States.