They're Off!

Relates the history of the Pony Express from when it began to carry messages across the American West in April 1860 until the telegraph replaced it in October 1861.

First sentence: In the earliest days of the United States, when the young nation had just broken away from England in the Revolutionary War, the West was the mysterious woods beyond the Appalachian Mountains.

Year

1996

Language

English

Publisher

Aladdin

Editions

1

Pages

32

ISBN

9780689851216

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