The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000-mile Horseback Journey into the Old West 0316422312, 9780316422314

"Spellbinding" (Douglas Preston) and "completely fascinating" (Elizabeth Letts), cowboy and journali

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The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000-mile Horseback Journey into the Old West
0316422312, 9780316422314

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‘I had to submit my work to the ultimate test to which a piece of journalism can be subjected—a forensic scrutiny, crimi

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Neil Ansell's THE LAST WILDERNESS is a mesmerising book on nature and solitude by a writer who has spent his lifeti

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A novel of the American West narrates the story of a dying man's attempts to make peace with his daughter, their st

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The Pony Express has a hold on the American imagination wildly out of proportion to its actual role in the history of th

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Discusses the myths, dangers, and most noted riders of the Pony Express, describing the challenges that prompted its emp

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*Includes pictures of important people, places, and events. *Explains the route of the Pony Express and accounts from Po

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"A beautiful, absorbing, tragic book."—Larry McMurtry In 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite Nati

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An adventure journalist’s memoir of a decade-long, round-the-world quest to overcome his drug addiction and to understan

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