The St Joseph Woodworkers Guild has annually supported the Pony Express Museum in several ways. See the pictures below;

There are three local companies that support the Museum and the Guild that need to be recognized for their contribution in the making of the 2-wheel hand carts:

Harshman Machine and Tool Co, 1030 S. 8th St for donating the two axels and 8 wheel bushings;

Rock Ridge Steel Co, 901 Woodsdale St Elwood KS for donating the steel to make the wheel tires;

Sunshine Electronic Display welding shop located next door to our guild shop for rolling and welding the steel tires to the wheels.

We first made two display stands, a single one and a double one that will hold exhibit information within the museum. They are currently located next to the horses display. For the summer camp activities, we have made several hundred wooden cars and trucks of varying sizes and shapes. The last two years, 200 wooden wagons per year were made. This year, we made 200 simple wooden keel boats like the ones used by Lewis and Clark in their exploration of the territory. We were also requested to make two 2-wheel hand carts to be used during the summer camp activities. Also, we were asked to make a quilt rack, that will sit in the back of the museum wagon display, to showcase the quilt that has traveled and survived the trip from St Joseph to California and back. For the upcoming 250-year celebration, we made an 8-foot replica of a wagon wheel that will be displayed next to the museum building and three wooden boxes that will be used to store museum relics and be used in the campfire rendition next to the original wagon display at the museum.