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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. On 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...
7) Jo's triumph
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Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Fields of silver and gold volume 5
Publisher
Keystone Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"The Fields of Silver and Gold series brings the past alive. Meet the trailblazers and the pioneers, the first people and the famous explorers, the legends and the everyday heroes that shaped the history, land, and culture of the West. Their powerful stories will fascinate and inspire you. Fearless. Young. Patriots. Wanted - Young, Skinny Wiry Fellows Not Over Eighteen. Must Be Expert Riders, Willing To Risk Death Daily. Orphans Preferred. Despite...
14) Pony express!
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Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Discusses the eighteen month history, officially beginning April 3, 1860, of the mail delivery between Saint Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California, known as the Pony Express.
17) The Pony Express
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Mason Crest Publishers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Tells the history of the creation, operation, and demise of the mail service that linked the eastern and western United States from 1860 to 1861.
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Marshall Pub. and Promotions
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
2 documentary programs. The Oregon Trail is an account of America's longest and most famous pioneer trail, covering the reasons for going, the landscape crossed, and the experience as described in immigrants' diaries. The Pony Express describes the gamble that bankrupted the men who started it, and lasted only 19 months, but made a legend of its riders and provided a vital link between California and the Northern states at the start of the Civil War....
19) The Pony Express
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Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
c2003
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IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Carolrhoda Books, Inc
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Relates how, in 1861, a boy named Charlie Miller became the youngest rider for the Pony Express, a mail service that linked the east and west coasts of the United States.
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