Pony Express

by Fred Reinfeld
127 pages, Paperback, 1966
 
This authentic account of the establishment of the first rapid-communications system between East and West is packed with adventure and real-life heroes -- Bob Haslam, who rode unharmed through an ambush of thirty Paiute Indians; Jack Keetley; Warren Upson; and the most famous rider of all, Buffalo Bill Cody. It is a rousing chronicle of the Old West, when danger and excitement marked each galloping trip across the two thousand miles of mountains, plains, and deserts that separated St. Joseph and Sacramento.