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The last ride of the Pony Express : my 2,000-mile horseback journey into the Old West
- Title
- The last ride of the Pony Express : my 2,000-mile horseback journey into the Old West / Will Grant.
- Author
- Grant, Will
- Publication
- New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2023.
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Details
- Description
- ix, 320 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- Inspired by the likes of Mark Twain, Sir Richard Burton, and Horace Greeley, a cowboy and journalist takes an epic and authentic horseback journey across the American West as he rides the Pony Express trail from Missouri to California.
- While in operation during the 1860s, the Pony Express carried letter mail on a blistering ten-day schedule between Missouri and San Francisco, running through a vast and mostly uninhabited wilderness. To this day, the Pony Express is irrefutably the greatest display of American horsemanship to ever color the pages of a history book. Inspired by what he had read about the service, Grant decided to ride the train himself with his two horses, from one end to another. Here he shares encounters with the ranchers, farmers, historians, and businessmen who populate the trail. His exploits on horseback offer an intimate portrait of how the West has evolved from the rough and tumble 19th century to the present. -- adapted from jacket
- Alternative Title
- My 2,000-mile horseback journey into the Old West
- Subject
- Grant, Will > Travel > West (U.S.)
- Pony express
- Packhorse camping > West (U.S.)
- Travel
- Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
- Postal service
- Packhorse camping
- Pony Express National Historic Trail > Description and travel
- West (U.S.) > Description and travel
- United States > Pony Express National Historic Trail
- West United States
- West (U.S.)
- West (U.S.) > History
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Travel writing.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-303) and index.
- Contents
- Prologue -- The making of the West -- A few good horses -- A fish out of history -- "You'll always need the farmer out there" -- A short history of the Great Plains -- No country for old ways -- "The Mormon 500" -- A hundred miles of mirage -- "They weren't all bad -- some were just wild" -- The final miles of the Pony Express -- Epilogue.
- Call Number
- JFE 23-3734
- ISBN
- 9780316422314
- 0316422312
- LCCN
- 2023934894
- OCLC
- 1380371452
- Author
- Grant, Will, author.
- Title
- The last ride of the Pony Express : my 2,000-mile horseback journey into the Old West / Will Grant.
- Publisher
- New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2023.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-303) and index.
- Local Note
- INCLUDES COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 23-3734