pony express

In Nevada in 1861, a young Pony Express rider races for his life, pursued by seven Paiute warriors who are determined to drive white settlers out of their territory.

Buffalo Bill Cody recounts his adventures as a teenaged rider for the Pony Express. Includes a history of the Pony Express and facts about Cody's life.

Tells the story of the Pony Express, a horseback mail delivery service that provided a link between the eastern states and the newly settled territories of the West in the 1860s.

A simple description of how the riders of the Pony Express delivered the mail from Saint Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California.

Examines the lives of people who were involved with the Pony Express, from its origins in the spring of 1860 to its demise with the invention of the telegraph.

In 1860, eleven-year-old Annie, who lives at the Red Buttes Pony Express station in the Nebraska Territory, asks Pony Express rider Billy Cody to help her find the person responsible for sabotaging her favorite pony Magpie.

Presents a comprehensive study of the Pony Express which was responsible for transporting mail from St. Joseph, Missouri to California between 1860 and 1861 prior to the completion of the transcontinental telegraph.

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.

An illustrated history of the Pony Express, the riders carried the mail from Missouri to California, and the dangers they encountered.

While visiting the Pony express exhibit at the National Postal Museum, Kevin travels back in time and becomes Warren Upson, a famous rider with a difficult route.