Book Description
A colorful chapter in the history of the Old West Getting the mail to California Two months to get it ready The Pony Express is off! Adventure on the job Pony Express bows to telegraph line.
Author : Jean Kinney Williams
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 15,26 MB
Release : 2002-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780756503017
A colorful chapter in the history of the Old West Getting the mail to California Two months to get it ready The Pony Express is off! Adventure on the job Pony Express bows to telegraph line.
Author : Jim DeFelice
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 42,57 MB
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0062496794
Western Writers of America Spur Awards Finalist, Best Western Historical Nonfiction "A GROUNDBREAKING WORK. ... The first comprehensive history of the legendary transcontinental experiment in mail delivery in sixty years." —True West "This rollicking account of the daring enterprise known as the Pony Express brings its era and its legendary characters to life." —San Francisco Chronicle The new definitive history of the Pony Express by the #1 bestselling coauthor of American Sniper, illustrated with 50 images On the eve of the Civil War, three American businessmen launched an audacious plan to create a financial empire by transforming communications across the hostile territory between the nation’s two coasts. In the process, they created one of the most enduring icons of the American West: the Pony Express. Daring young men with colorful names like “Bronco Charlie” and “Sawed-Off Jim” galloped at speed over a vast and unforgiving landscape, etching an irresistible tale that passed into myth almost instantly. Equally an improbable success and a business disaster, the Pony Express came and went in just eighteen months, but not before uniting and captivating a nation on the brink of being torn apart. Jim DeFelice’s brilliantly entertaining West Like Lightning is the first major history of the Pony Express to put its birth, life, and legacy into the full context of the American story. The Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company—or “Pony Express,” as it came to be known—was part of a plan by William Russell, Alexander Majors, and William Waddell to create the next American Express, a transportation and financial juggernaut that already dominated commerce back east. All that stood in their way were almost two thousand miles of uninhabited desert, ice-capped mountains, oceanic plains roamed by Indian tribes, whitewater-choked rivers, and harsh, unsettled wilderness. The Pony used a relay system of courageous horseback riders to ferry mail halfway across a continent in just ten days. The challenges the riders faced were enormous, yet the Pony Express succeeded, delivering thousands of letters at record speed. The service instantly became the most direct means of communication between the eastern United States and its far western territories, helping to firmly connect them to the Union. Populated with cast of characters including Abraham Lincoln (news of whose electoral victory the Express delivered to California), Wild Bill Hickock, Buffalo Bill Cody (who fed the legend of the Express in his Wild West Show), and Mark Twain (who celebrated the riders in Roughing It), West Like Lightning masterfully traces the development of the Pony Express and follows it from its start in St. Joseph, Missouri—the edge of the civilized world—west to Sacramento, the capital of California, then booming from the gold rush. Jim DeFelice, who traveled the Pony’s route in his research, plumbs the legends, myths, and surprising truth of the service, exploring its lasting relevance today as a symbol of American enterprise, audacity, and daring.
Author : Ralph Moody
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 36,41 MB
Release : 1958-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780803235984
Chronicles the eighteen-month operation of the Pony Express, explaining why and how it was created, describing the challenges faced by riders, and discussing.
Author : Harry Castlemon
Publisher :
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 12,88 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN :
Author : Michael P. Spradlin
Publisher : Walker Childrens
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,42 MB
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780802796530
In 1860, the first Pony Express rider set out on a trail from Missouri to California. With him, he carried a special delivery-the first mail ever carried by hand to the West. Over the next eleven days, he and many other riders would endure harsh weather, dangerous animals, and more, but nothing would diminish their unflagging determination and courage. Meticulously researched and gorgeously illustrated, Michael P. Spradlin and Layne Johnson's Off Like the Wind! brings to life an adventurous journey, full of suspense and excitement, that celebrates America's can-do attitude and pioneering spirit.
Author : William E. Hill
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,67 MB
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0870044958
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press It operated less than two years. It lost an enormous amount of money. But the Pony Express delivered the mail across a continent at a critical time and captured the imagination of people all over the world like few events in the history of the American West.
Author : Carla E Photography
Publisher :
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 50,24 MB
Release : 2018-05-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781732263802
Hop in and ride shotgun in spirit with Carla and her canine companion (Australian Cattle Dog), Rider, as they share their RV travel adventures, trials and triumphs, the people they meet on the trail, interesting places, and photographs of those American treasures, the historic Pony Express Stations!
Author : Becky Lower
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 34,80 MB
Release : 2015-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1440578966
Samantha Hughes has one day to escape from her wicked uncle, and a sign in the post office is her answer. She'll cut her hair to pose as a man and become Sam Hughes, a Pony Express rider. Valerian Fitzpatrick doesn't want the weight of responsibility that his brothers have in the family business. Fortunately, the Pony Express offers a chance to make his own way in the world. He assumes his new buddy, Sam, is on the run from the law, until she's hit by a stray gunshot and he has to undress her to staunch the wound. Friendship quickly turns to attraction - and more - but when Sam's uncle tracks her down, she is forced to run yet again. Val's determined to find her, but will a future with Sam mean giving up the freedom he's always craved? Sensuality Level: Sensual
Author : William Harold Floyd
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 35,92 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Pony express
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 19,37 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Government publications
ISBN :