Riders of the Pony Express

by Ralph Moody
183 pages, Paperback, 1958
 
Prior to the Civil War, the fastest mail between the West Coast and East took almost thirty days by stagecoach along a southern route through Texas. Some Californians feared their state would not remain in the Union, separated so far from the free states. 
 
Then three partners, Russell, Majors and Waddell, invested in a way to deliver mail between San Francisco and St. Joseph, Missouri in ten days or less -- the Pony Express. 
 
Informed by his intimate knowledge of horses and Western geography, Ralph Moddy's exciting account of the eighteen critical months that the Pony Express operated pays tribute to the true grit and determination of the riders and horses of the Pony Express.