West Like Lightning The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony Express
✍ Scribed by Jim DeFelice
- Book ID
- 100080641
- Publisher
- HarperCollins;William Morrow Paperbacks
- Year
- 2018;2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 006249676X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
**The #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of American Sniper brings the Pony Express to life in this rich and rollicking new history
**
"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...