West like lightning
Subtitle: the brief, legendary ride of the Pony Express
By: Jim DeFelice
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780062496768
Subjects: Pony express; Postal service; Frontier and pioneer life; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Maps on end caps.

Includes bibliographic references (pages 305-357) and index.