Edition |
1st ed. |
Description |
270 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-263). |
Contents |
How the story goes, or what do we know? -- In the days of the pony -- "Capital fellows" - Russell, Majors & Waddell -- "A wild, uninhabited expanse" -- "The greatest enterprise of modern times!!" -- Pyramid Lake -- "Orphans preferred" and "The worst imps of satan" -- Captain Sir Richard Burton -- The telegraph : "Our little friend the pony is to run no more" -- After the pony -- Mark Twain ... "To the territory ahead" -- Billy Cody's big adventure -- Buffalo Bill's wild west : "Wholly free from sham and insincerity" -- The colonel and his thrilling and truthful history -- Pony Bob Haslam : a true rider of the purple sage -- "Memory at the best is treacherous" : the story of the story of the pony express and how it grew -- The borderland of fable -- Broncho Charlie Miller, "the last of the pony express riders" -- The girl who remembered Johnny Frey. |
Study Program |
AR UG RL 8.8 PTS 17 78327. |
Subject |
Pony express.
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ISBN |
0767906926 |
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