On the Trail of the Pony Express (Paperback)

Responding to the enduring lure of the West that captured his imagination as a child, Jerry Ellis decides to follow the trail of the Pony Express, a short-lived, hell-for-leather mail delivery service that lasted just one and a half years starting in 1860 but has marked itself in national memory ever since. Starting his journey in St. Joseph, Missouri, Ellis follows the Pony Express trail across Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, and Nevada to the end of the line in San Francisco.Ellis succeeds in completing his twenty-one-hundred-mile journey by foot, horseback, covered wagon, hitchhiking, and canoe. Open to what he finds, including his own frailties, Ellis reports with sympathy and humor on the strange variety of the modern West.Jerry Ellis is the author of Walking the Trail: One Man's Journey along the Cherokee Trail of Tears, also available in a Bison Books edition.

General

Imprint:	Bison Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2002
First published:	March 2002
Authors:	Jerry Ellis
Afterword by:	Jerry Ellis
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	311
ISBN-13:	978-0-8032-6746-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Media, information & communication industries > Postal & telecommunications industries Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > Travel writing > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Travel > Travel writing > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8032-6746-0
Barcode:	9780803267466

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