01978cam a2200385 i 4500 348804594 TxAuBib 20180614120000.0 161108s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780062496768 006249676X (OCoLC)981549769 TxAuBib rda DeFelice, Jim, 1956- West like lightning [HC] : the brief, legendary ride of the Pony Express / Jim DeFelice. First edition. New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] ©2018. viii, 357 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Maps on end caps. Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-357) and index. Go! -- Money, ambition and other complications -- Bleeding Kansas, bleeding men -- Of colts and cranks -- Threat of dissolution -- Rough men -- Buffalo Bill -- Unbonded -- The great divide -- Saints -- Sand and silver -- Indian wars -- Storms -- A place called tomorrow -- Remains of the day. In the spring of 1860 on the eve of a civil war that threatened to tear the country apart, two Americans conceived of an audacious plan for linking the nation's two coasts, thereby joining its present with its future. This book traces the development of the Pony Express and follows it from its start in St. Joseph, Missouri 1,500 miles west to Sacramento. 20180614. Pony express History. Pony express History. Pony express History. Postal service United States History. Postal service United States History. Frontier and pioneer life United States. West (U.S) History.