West Like Lightning The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony Express

✍ Scribed by Jim DeFelice

• Publisher: HarperCollins;William Morrow Paperbacks
• Year: 2018;2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

**The #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of American Sniper brings the Pony Express to life in this rich and rollicking new history

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"One can hear horse hooves pounding across the prairie and sense the fear and courage and excitement." --Tom Clavin, author of Dodge City

O n the eve of the Civil War, three American businessmen launched an audacious plan to create a financial empire by transforming communications across the hostile territory between the nation's two coasts. In the process, they created one of the most enduring icons of the American West: the Pony Express. Daring young men with colorful names like "Bronco Charlie" and "Sawed-Off Jim" galloped at speed over a vast and unforgiving landscape, etching an irresistible tale that passed into myth almost instantly. Equally an improbable success and a business disaster, the Pony Express came and went in just eighteen months, but not before uniting...