Stagecoaches and the Pony Express
By: Sally Senzell Isaacs.
Series: The American adventure
Publisher: Heinemann Library
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Overland Mail Company -- Juvenile literature.; Overland Mail Company.; Transportation -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.; Stagecoaches -- United States -- Juvenile literature.; Pony express -- United States -- Juvenile literature.; Postal service -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.; Transportation -- History -- 19th century.; Stagecoach lines -- History.; Pony express.; Postal service -- History.; West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Description: An account of the most widely-used delivery systems in the nineteenth-century United States, stagecoaches and the Pony Express, discussing their development and challenges faced during their growth.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: By rivers and roads; title: Moving farther West; title: The Santa Fe trail; title: Gold rush and growth; title: Progress on wheels; title: Overland Mail Company; title: The Pony Express; title: The telegraph; title: To the Pacific Coast; title: Connecting the country; title: Modern transportation; title: Historical map of the United States.