The Story of the Pony Express



An account of the most remarkable mail service ever in existence, and
its place in history.



By Glenn D. Bradley
Author of Winning the Southwest



To My Parents



Preface



This little volume has but one purpose - to give an authentic, useful,
and readable account of the Pony Express. This wonderful enterprise
played an important part in history, and demonstrated what American
spirit can accomplish. It showed that the "heroes of sixty-one" were not
all south of Mason and Dixon's line fighting each other. And, strange to
say, little of a formal nature has been written concerning it.

I have sought to bring to light and make accessible to all readers the