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100 1 $aCorbett, Christopher.
245 10 $aOrphans preferred :$bthe twisted truth and lasting legend of the Pony Express /$cChristopher Corbett.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bBroadway Books,$c2003.
300 $a270 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 257-263).
505 0 $aHow the story goes, or what do we know? -- In the days of the pony -- "Capital fellows" -- Russell, Majors & Waddell -- "A wild, uninhabited expanse" -- "The greatest enterprise of modern times!!" -- Pyramid Lake -- "Orphans preferred" and "The worst imps of satan" -- Captain Sir Richard Burton -- The telegraph: "Our little friend the pony is to run no more" -- After the pony -- Mark Twain ... "To the territory ahead" -- Billy Cody's big adventure -- Buffalo Bill's wild west: "Wholly free from sham and insincerity" -- The colonel and his thrilling and truthful history -- Pony Bob Haslam: a true rider of the purple sage -- "Memory at the best is treacherous": the story of the story of the pony express and how it grew -- The borderland of fable -- Broncho Charlie Miller, "the last of the pony express riders" -- The girl who remembered Johnny Frey.
520 $aDiscusses the myths, dangers, and most noted riders of the Pony Express, describing the challenges that prompted its employers to advertise for adventure seekers without families.
650 0 $aPony express.
650 7 $aPony express.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01071025
650 17 $aPony Express.$2gtt
650 7 $aPony express.$2sears
655 4 $aNonfiction.
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856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0413/2003041792.html
856 42 $zDonated by Dr. J.R. Robinson$uhttp://www.lib.uwo.ca/catalogue/bookplates/viewfund.php?id=25
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