West like lightning : the brief, legendary ride of the Pony Express / Jim DeFelice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeFelice, Jim, 1956- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pony express--History.

Pony express.

Postal service--United States--History.

Postal service.

History.

United States.

Frontier and pioneer life--United States.

Frontier and pioneer life.

West (U.S.)--History.

West (U.S.).

HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest.

HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.

HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West.

History, 19th Century.

Medical Subjects:

History, 19th Century.

Local Subjects:

HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest.

Frontier and pioneer life--United States.

Pony express--History.

HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.

Postal service--United States--History.

HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West.

West (U.S.)--History.

Physical Description:

viii, 357 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Go!

Money, ambition and other complications

Bleeding Kansas, bleeding men

Of colts and cranks

Threat of dissolution

Rough men

Buffalo Bill

Unbonded

The great divide

Saints

Sand and silver

Indian wars

Storms

A place called tomorrow

Remains of the day.

Notes:

Maps on end caps.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-357) and index.

ISBN:

9780062496768

006249676X

OCLC:

981549769