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The Mail Must Go Through
郵件必須送達
Merlin Moore Taylor
作者：梅林·穆爾·泰勒
The same bravery and faithfulness that made Gunnar Kasson, Leonard Seppala, and their dogs carry the serum to Nome were in the hearts of the men and horses of the Pony Express long years ago.
貢納爾·卡森、倫納德·塞帕拉和他們的狗把這種血清帶到諾姆市的勇氣和忠誠，多年前就存在于“快馬郵遞”的人們和馬心中。
In spite of Indians and blizzards and dangerous mountain trails, the Express riders carried the mails two thousand miles from the Missouri River to California.
盡管路上可能會遇到印第安人、暴風(fēng)雪和危險的山路，但快遞員們還是把這些郵件從密蘇里河運到了加利福尼亞，行程2000英里。
William Saunders was only a boy, but he did a man’s work when duty called him to carry the mail.
威廉·桑德斯還只是個孩子，但當(dāng)他肩負起搬運郵件的責(zé)任時，卻做了一份男人的工作。
The First Pony Express Rider
第一個“快馬郵遞”騎士
In a log house at St. Joseph, Missouri, on April 3, 1860, half a dozen men were gathered around a rough pine table.
1860年4月3日，在密蘇里州圣約瑟夫的一間小木屋里，六個人聚集在一張粗糙的松木桌子旁。
At the head of the table stood William Majors, manager for the firm of Russell, Majors and Waddell.
威廉·梅杰斯在桌子的最前面站著，他是羅素、梅杰斯和瓦德爾的公司的經(jīng)理。
This company operated a line of stagecoaches and wagon trains which carried passengers and freight across the western plains and the Rocky Mountains to California, two thousand miles away.
這家公司經(jīng)營著一趟驛站馬車和馬車隊，將乘客和貨物從西部平原和落基山脈運送到兩千英里外的加利福尼亞。
The railroad from the eastern part of the United States ended at St. Joseph;
從美國東部來的鐵路在圣約瑟夫就截止了；
travelers desiring to reach the gold fields and fertile lands of the Far West faced a weary trail of many weeks over plains and mountains.
旅行者們想要到達遙遠西部的金礦和肥沃土地，必須越過平原和山丘，面臨著好幾周的疲憊旅程。
Every foot of the way was full of danger, mostly from the Indians.
每一腳都充滿了危險，大部分危險來自印第安人。
It was Russell, Majors and Waddell who made that trail as safe as it could possibly be made,
是拉塞爾、梅杰斯和瓦德爾盡可能地使這條小路安全，
who kept in touch with weather conditions and the temper of the 33 redskins, and whose men guided the coaches and wagon trains across the wilderness.
他們密切關(guān)注天氣狀況、33個印第安人的脾氣，他們的人帶領(lǐng)著驛站馬車和馬車隊穿過荒野。
