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    Riders of the Pony Express
    Riders of the Pony Express
    Riders of the Pony Express
    Audiobook2 hours

    Riders of the Pony Express

    Written by Ralph Moody

    Narrated by Cameron Beierle

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Prior to the Civil War, the fastest mail between the West Coast and the 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 businessman William Russell invested in a way to deliver mail between San Francisco and the farthest western railroad, in Saint Joseph, Missouri—across two thousand miles of mountains, deserts, and plains—guaranteed in ten days or less. Russell hired eighty of the best and bravest riders, bought four hundred of the fastest and hardiest horses, and built relay stations along a central route--through modern-day Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, and Nevada, to California. Informed by his intimate knowledge of horses and Western geography, Ralph Moody's exciting account of the eighteen critical months that the Pony Express operated between April 1860 and October 1861 pays tribute to the true grit and determination of the riders and horses of the Pony Express.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks in Motion
    Release dateDec 15, 2011
    ISBN9781614530541
    Riders of the Pony Express

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    • 4/5
      The history and horse knowledge was interesting. One minor drawback
      Was the reader. Fine, but not great.:)
    • 5/5
      Fascinating history. Hadn’t a clue about the history in it!!!!!