West like lightning : the brief, legendary ride of the Pony Express / Jim DeFelice.
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Details
- Edition
- First edition.
- Description
- 357 pages, [16] unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Note
- Maps on end caps.
- Includes bibliographic references (pages [305]-341) and index.
- Summary
- In the spring of 1860 on the eve of a civil war that threatened to tear the country apart, two Americans conceived of an audacious plan for linking the nation's two coasts, thereby joining its present with its future. This book traces the development of the Pony Express and follows it from its start in St. Joseph, Missouri 1,500 miles west to Sacramento.
- Subject
- Pony express -- History.
- Postal service -- United States -- History.
- Frontier and pioneer life -- United States.
- West (U.S.) -- History.
- HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West.
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest.
- ISBN
- 9780062496768 (hardcover)
- 006249676X (hardcover)