
Jeff Wallenfeldt
Former Encyclopædia Britannica Editor
Jeff Wallenfeldt, manager of Geography and History, worked as an editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica from 1992 to 2024. Previously he wrote rock criticism for Cleveland’s Scene magazine, worked for study-abroad programs in England, and was an editor at CineBooks, publisher of The Motion Picture Guide.
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Pony Express, system of U.S. mail delivery by continuous horse-and-rider relays between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California, and from Sacramento to San Francisco, California, by steamer (April 1860–October 1861). Although a financially disastrous brief enterprise, the Pony Express and…
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