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Subject(s)

• Pony express [Browse]

Summary note

Discusses the myths, dangers, and most noted riders of the Pony Express, describing the challenges that prompted its employers to advertise for adventure seekers without families.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-263).

Contents

• How the story goes, or what do we know?
• In the days of the pony
• "Capital fellows"
• Russell, Majors & Waddell
• "A wild, uninhabited expanse"
• "The greatest enterprise of modern times!!"
• Pyramid Lake
• "Orphans preferred" and "The worst imps of satan"
• Captain Sir Richard Burton
• The telegraph: "Our little friend the pony is to run no more"
• After the pony
• Mark Twain ... "To the territory ahead"
• Billy Cody's big adventure
• Buffalo Bill's wild west: "Wholly free from sham and insincerity"
• The colonel and his thrilling and truthful history
• Pony Bob Haslam: a true rider of the purple sage
• "Memory at the best is treacherous": the story of the story of the pony express and how it grew
• The borderland of fable
• Broncho Charlie Miller, "the last of the pony express riders"
• The girl who remembered Johnny Frey.

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ISBN

• 0767906926
• 9780767906920
• 0767906934
• 9780767906937

LCCN

2003041792

OCLC

51799794

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