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"WANTED. YOUNG, SKINNY, WIRY FELLOWS. NOT OVER 18. MUST BE EXPERT RIDERS. WILLING TO RISK DEATH DAILY. ORPHANS PREFERRED." --California newspaper help-wanted ad, 1860 The Pony Express is one of the most celebrated and enduring chapters in the history of the United States, a story of the all-American traits of bravery, bravado, and entrepreneurial risk that are part of the very fabric of the Old West. No image of the American West in the mid-1800s is more familiar, more beloved, and more powerful than that of the lone rider galloping the mail across hostile Indian territory. No image is more revered. And none is less understood. Orphans Preferred is both a revisionist history of this magnificent and ill-fated adventure and an entertaining look at the often larger-than-life individuals who created and perpetuated the myth of "the Pony," as it is known along the Pony Express trail that runs from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California. The Pony Express is a story that exists in the annals of Americana where fact and fable collide, a story as heroic as the journey of Lewis and Clark, as complex and revealing as the legacy of Custer's Last Stand, and as muddled and freighted with yarns as Paul Revere's midnight ride. Orphans Preferred is a fresh and exuberant reexamination of this great American story.
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Pony express, Open Library Staff Picks, Nonfiction, HistoryShowing 6 featured editions. View all 6 editions?
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Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express
September 14, 2004, Broadway
Paperback
in English
0767906934 9780767906937
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Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express
September 2004, Tandem Library
Unknown Binding
in English
141774149X 9781417741496
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Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express
September 2004, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
Unknown Binding
in English
0606313486 9780606313483
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Orphans preferred: the twisted truth and lasting legend of the Pony Express
2003, Thorndike Press
in English
- Large print ed.
0786259620 9780786259625
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Orphans preferred: the twisted truth and lasting legend of the Pony Express
2003, Broadway Books
Hardcover
in English
- 1st ed
0767906926 9780767906920
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"In the spring of 1859 with carpetbag in hand, Horace Greeley, legendary editor of the New York Tribune, took the celebrated advice so often attributed to him and went west."
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