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 team also found high levels of mercury in red hair taken from a cap belonging to another suspected murder victim, Grand Duchess Yelena Glinskaya, the second wife of Vasily III who died in 1538 and the mother of Ivan IV. Yelena ruled Moscow in Ivan's name until her death. Anastasiya Romanovna married Ivan IV in February 1547, a month after he was crowned tsar and grand prince of all Russia. The circumstances of her death were suspicious, particularly as her husband married five times in the 1560s and went on to kill his son and heir Ivan in 1581.