Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Introduction; Preface; Poem, "The Pony Rider"; Chapter One -- It Begins; Chapter Two -- Maps and Itinerary; Chapter Three -- History; Chapter Four -- Artists and Recorders; Chapter Five -The Mail Goes Through, a Pictoral Journey; Chapter Six -- The Riders, Folklore and Fact; Chapter Seven -- Stations; Chapter Eight -- Museums and Displays; Chapter Nine -- Additional Reading; Bibliography; The Author; Index.
Summary
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressIt operated less than two years. It lost an enormous amount of money. But the Pony Express delivered the mail across a continent at a critical time and captured the imagination of people all over the world like few events in the history of the American West.