The Pony Express
an illustrated history
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Author
Contributions
- Smith, Bart, 1959- - Contributor
Publication
2010 - TwoDot, Guilford, Conn, Connecticut
Language
English
Word Count
45,250 words, Guess
Page Count
181 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780762748167
- ISBN-100762748168
- Library of Congress Control Number2009036886
- OCLC Control Number317451038
- Better World Books9780762748167
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL24044662M
Classifications
- DDC383/.1430973
- LCCHE6375.P65 G88 2010
- LCCHE6375.P65G88 2010
Description
"Orphans preferred" was the call that went out to the daring of heart when the Pony Express was organized 150 years ago. Called "The Greatest Enterprise of Modern Times" the endeavor required young men willing to risk life and limb in a relay race that crossed the frontier on a route from St. Joseph, Missouri, to San Francisco, California, speeding the delivery of mail to an astonishing ten days. This popular history, illustrated with contemporary photography and archival images and documents from the past celebrates the sesquecentennial of the start--and end--of those daring rides, which ended with the completion of the transcontinental railroad.
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