Bulletin (Center for Children's books), September 2005
Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2005
Kirkus Review, June 2005
Summary
Twelve-year-old Colton, son of an African-American mother and a white father, takes a job with the Pony Express in 1860 after his father abandons the family on their California-bound wagon train, and risks his life to deliver an important letter that may affect the growing conflict between the North and South.
