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Central Overland Pony Express Route And Stations In California
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Book Synopsis Central Overland Pony Express Route and Stations in California by : Swift Berry
Download or read book Central Overland Pony Express Route and Stations in California written by Swift Berry and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Pony Express by : Jean Kinney Williams
Download or read book The Pony Express written by Jean Kinney Williams and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colorful chapter in the history of the Old West Getting the mail to California Two months to get it ready The Pony Express is off! Adventure on the job Pony Express bows to telegraph line.
Book Synopsis The Overland Stage to California by : Frank Albert Root
Download or read book The Overland Stage to California written by Frank Albert Root and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the most valuable narratives of the overland stage. As the agent of the postal department, Root oversaw the transportation of the mail over the great stage line ... The narrative is packed with anecdotes and details and is abundantly illustrated"--Bookdealer's description.
Book Synopsis The Story of the Pony Express by : Glenn Danford Bradley
Download or read book The Story of the Pony Express written by Glenn Danford Bradley and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Saddles and Spurs by : Raymond W. Settle
Download or read book Saddles and Spurs written by Raymond W. Settle and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1955-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Pony Express, which carried transcontinental mail from April 3, 1860 to October 24, 1861, is one of the most invigorating and satisfying episodes in American history. Saddles and Spurs: The Pony Express Saga brings together a storehouse of information about this brilliant operation. Projected against an account of the historical background—the great overland mail issue, the freighting and the stagecoach business, the development of the telegraph and the Pacific railroad—is the narrative of the Pony Express's organization and the laying out of its route; biographical sketches of the founders, company personnel, and riders; and a list and description of the stations. While undertaking their exhaustive research, the authors collected some three hundred photographs, of which more than fifty of the best appear in this volume.
Book Synopsis The Butterfield Overland Mail by : Waterman L. Ormsby
Download or read book The Butterfield Overland Mail written by Waterman L. Ormsby and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the classic firsthand account by Waterman L. Ormsby, a reporter who in 1858 crossed the western states as the sole through passenger of the Butterfield Overland Mail stage on its first trip from St. Louis to San Francisco. Ormsby’s reports, which soon appeared in the New York Herald, are lively and exciting. He describes the journey in close detail, giving full accounts of the accommodations, the other passengers, the country through which they passed, the dangers to which they were exposed, and the constant necessity for speed. “A most interesting account of the first westbound trip of an overland mail stage.”—Southern California Historical Society Quarterly “The best narrative of the trip and one of the best accounts of western travel by stage.”—Pacific Historical Review “If other travelers had been as careful and observant as Ormsby we should know vastly more about our country and the ways of our fathers than we do...The book is fascinating. It will prove interesting to all who care for travelogues, the history of the West, and particularly to those interested in our economic history.”—Journal of Economic History
Book Synopsis West Like Lightning by : Jim DeFelice
Download or read book West Like Lightning written by Jim DeFelice and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western Writers of America Spur Awards Finalist, Best Western Historical Nonfiction "A GROUNDBREAKING WORK. ... The first comprehensive history of the legendary transcontinental experiment in mail delivery in sixty years." —True West "This rollicking account of the daring enterprise known as the Pony Express brings its era and its legendary characters to life." —San Francisco Chronicle The new definitive history of the Pony Express by the #1 bestselling coauthor of American Sniper, illustrated with 50 images On the eve of the Civil War, three American businessmen launched an audacious plan to create a financial empire by transforming communications across the hostile territory between the nation’s two coasts. In the process, they created one of the most enduring icons of the American West: the Pony Express. Daring young men with colorful names like “Bronco Charlie” and “Sawed-Off Jim” galloped at speed over a vast and unforgiving landscape, etching an irresistible tale that passed into myth almost instantly. Equally an improbable success and a business disaster, the Pony Express came and went in just eighteen months, but not before uniting and captivating a nation on the brink of being torn apart. Jim DeFelice’s brilliantly entertaining West Like Lightning is the first major history of the Pony Express to put its birth, life, and legacy into the full context of the American story. The Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company—or “Pony Express,” as it came to be known—was part of a plan by William Russell, Alexander Majors, and William Waddell to create the next American Express, a transportation and financial juggernaut that already dominated commerce back east. All that stood in their way were almost two thousand miles of uninhabited desert, ice-capped mountains, oceanic plains roamed by Indian tribes, whitewater-choked rivers, and harsh, unsettled wilderness. The Pony used a relay system of courageous horseback riders to ferry mail halfway across a continent in just ten days. The challenges the riders faced were enormous, yet the Pony Express succeeded, delivering thousands of letters at record speed. The service instantly became the most direct means of communication between the eastern United States and its far western territories, helping to firmly connect them to the Union. Populated with cast of characters including Abraham Lincoln (news of whose electoral victory the Express delivered to California), Wild Bill Hickock, Buffalo Bill Cody (who fed the legend of the Express in his Wild West Show), and Mark Twain (who celebrated the riders in Roughing It), West Like Lightning masterfully traces the development of the Pony Express and follows it from its start in St. Joseph, Missouri—the edge of the civilized world—west to Sacramento, the capital of California, then booming from the gold rush. Jim DeFelice, who traveled the Pony’s route in his research, plumbs the legends, myths, and surprising truth of the service, exploring its lasting relevance today as a symbol of American enterprise, audacity, and daring.
Book Synopsis Pony Express National Historic Trail by : Anthony Godfrey
Download or read book Pony Express National Historic Trail written by Anthony Godfrey and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pony Express written by Carol Guthrie and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-12-22 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Orphans preferred” was the call that went out to the daring of heart when the Pony Express was organized nearly 150 years ago in April 1860. Called “The Greatest Enterprise of Modern Times,” the endeavor—which lasted only nineteenth months—recruited young men willing to risk life and limb in a relay race that crossed the frontier on a route from St. Joseph, Missouri, to San Francisco, California, speeding the delivery of mail to an astonishing ten days. The Pony Express combines the legends and lore of this remarkable mail service with contemporary photography and archival images and documents from the past, and celebrates the sesquicentennial of the start—and end—of those daring rides, which ended with the completion of the transcontinental railroad. It is a befitting tribute to an American icon whose legacy is marked to this day by Pony Express museums all along the route from Missouri to California.
Book Synopsis The Story of the Pony Express by : Glenn D. Bradley
Download or read book The Story of the Pony Express written by Glenn D. Bradley and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-07 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Book Synopsis The Story of the Pony Express by : Raymond W. Settle
Download or read book The Story of the Pony Express written by Raymond W. Settle and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pony Express in Nevada written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Story of the Pony Express by : Glenn D. Bradley
Download or read book The Story of the Pony Express written by Glenn D. Bradley and published by . This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While lasting praise is due the faithful station men who, in their isolation, so often bore the murderous attacks of Indians and bandits, it is, perhaps, to the riders that the seeker of romance is most likely to turn. It was the riders' skill and fortitude that made the operation of the line possible. Both riders and hostlers shared the same privations, often being reduced to the necessity of eating wolf meat and drinking foul or brackish water.
Download or read book Pony Express written by Fred Reinfeld and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the exciting days when such men as Buffalo Bill Cody and Warren Upson risked hazardous conditions as riders for America's first cross-country mail system.
Book Synopsis The Story of the Pony Express by : Glenn D. Bradley
Download or read book The Story of the Pony Express written by Glenn D. Bradley and published by VM eBooks. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pony Express was the first rapid transit and the first fast mail line across the continent from the Missouri River to the Pacific Coast. It was a system by means of which messages were carried swiftly on horseback across the plains and deserts, and over the mountains of the far West. It brought the Atlantic coast and the Pacific slope ten days nearer to each other. It had a brief existence of only sixteen months and was supplanted by the transcontinental telegraph. Yet it was of the greatest importance in binding the East and West together at a time when overland travel was slow and cumbersome, and when a great national crisis made the rapid communication of news between these sections an imperative necessity.
Download or read book Pony Express written by Alan Pierce and published by ABDO Publishing Company. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses defining moments in American history.
Book Synopsis Pony Express National Historic Trail by : Anthony Godfrey
Download or read book Pony Express National Historic Trail written by Anthony Godfrey and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: