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The #1 New York Times–bestselling coauthor of American Sniper details the history of the nineteenth-century express mail service that spanned the American west.
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...
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...
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Series
Cultural resources volume no. 2
Publisher
For Sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S.G.P.O
Pub. Date
1979
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1996
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Relates the history of the Pony Express from when it began to carry messages across the American West in April 1860 until the telegraph replaced it in October 1861.
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
1996, c1995
Edition
1st Harper Trophy ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Bill finds adventure when he becomes a rider for the Pony Express though his letters home never hint at the dangers he encounters.
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
c2006, 1989
Edition
Full screen ed.
Language
English
Description
Set in the early days of the Pony Express, this series tells the fictionalized story of a group of young riders for the express based in Sweetwater, Kansas. The riders include Buffalo Bill Cody, and Wild Bill Hickock.
15) Wind River
Publisher
Avalanche Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c1999
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Nick Wilson, a young white settler who is accepted as part of the Shoshone Indian tribe and becomes an original Pony Express rider. When a Shoshone warrior "kidnaps" Nick and brings him back to the tribe, Nick learns how to become a warrior himself. But when a gang of settlers, including his brother, comes looking for him, Nick has to face the toughest decision of his life ... return to his real family or stay with the Indian...
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1860, eleven-year-old Annie, who lives at the Red Buttes Pony Express station in the Nebraska Territory, asks Pony Express rider Billy Cody to help her find the person responsible for sabotaging her favorite pony Magpie.
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English
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Prior to the Civil War, the fastest mail between the West Coast and the East took almost thirty days by stagecoach along a southern route through Texas. Some Californians feared their state would not remain in the Union, separated so far from the free states. Then businessman William Russell invested in a way to deliver mail between San Francisco and the farthest western railroad, in Saint Joseph, Missouri—across two thousand miles of mountains,
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