A thrilling and truthful history of the pony express : or, Blazing the westward way, and other sketches and incidents of those stirring times /

A thrilling and truthful history of the pony express : or, Blazing the westward way, and other sketches and incidents of those stirring times /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Visscher, William Lightfoot, 1842-1924.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago, Ill. : Charles T. Powner Co., 1946, [©1908]
Series:Warden Memorial Equine Collection
Subjects:
Pony express > History.
Express service > United States > History.
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
Express service.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Pony express.
United States.
West United States.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • "The Great American Desert"
  • The gold fever
  • Winning the West
  • The Pony Express succeeds
  • Off both ways
  • Famous rides and riders
  • "Pony Bob"-Robert Haslam
  • "Buffalo Bill"-Col. W. F. Cody
  • A little Pawnee
  • The telegraph
  • An incident that changed a railroad terminus
  • "The Iron Trail"
  • General Sheridan's Way
  • The beginning of the end.

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