Orphans preferred
Subtitle: the twisted truth and lasting legend of the Pony Express
By: Christopher Corbett
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Broadway Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780767906920
Subjects: Pony express
Description: Discusses the myths, dangers, and most noted riders of the Pony Express, describing the challenges that prompted its employers to advertise for adventure seekers without families.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-263)
Table of contents: title: How the story goes, or what do we know?; title: In the days of the pony; title: "Capital fellows" - Russell, Majors & Waddell; title: "A wild, uninhabited expanse"; title: "The greatest enterprise of modern times!!"; title: Pyramid Lake; title: "Orphans preferred" and "The worst imps of satan"; title: Captain Sir Richard Burton; title: The telegraph: "Our little friend the pony is to run no more"; title: After the pony; title: Mark Twain ..."To the territory ahead"; title: Billy Cody's big adventure; title: Buffalo Bill's wild west: "Wholly free from sham and insincerity"; title: The colonel and his thrilling and truthful history; title: Pony Bob Haslam: a true rider of the purple sage; title: "Memory at the best is treacherous": the story of the story of the pony express and how it grew; title: The borderland of fable; title: Broncho Charlie Miller, "the last of the pony express riders"; title: The girl who remembered Johnny Frey