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- Responding to the enduring lure of the West that captured his imagination as a child, Jerry Ellis decides to follow the trail of the Pony Express, a short-lived, hell-for-leather mail delivery service that lasted just one and a half years starting in 1860 but has marked itself in national memory ever since.
- About the Author: Jerry Ellis is the author of Walking the Trail: One Man's Journey along the Cherokee Trail of Tears, also available in a Bison Books edition.
- 311 Pages
- Travel, Essays & Travelogues
- Series Name: American West
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Originally published under title: Bareback! New York: Delacorte Press, c1993.Book Synopsis
Responding to the enduring lure of the West that captured his imagination as a child, Jerry Ellis decides to follow the trail of the Pony Express, a short-lived, hell-for-leather mail delivery service that lasted just one and a half years starting in 1860 but has marked itself in national memory ever since. Starting his journey in St. Joseph, Missouri, Ellis follows the Pony Express trail across Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, and Nevada to the end of the line in San Francisco.Ellis succeeds in completing his twenty-one-hundred-mile journey by foot, horseback, covered wagon, hitchhiking, and canoe. Open to what he finds, including his own frailties, Ellis reports with sympathy and humor on the strange variety of the modern West.
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"The most important collection of books on western and American Indian history."
About the Author
Jerry Ellis is the author of Walking the Trail: One Man's Journey along the Cherokee Trail of Tears, also available in a Bison Books edition.Dimensions (Overall): 8.04 Inches (H) x 5.46 Inches (W) x .7 Inches (D)
Weight: .78 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 311
Series Title: American West
Genre: Travel
Sub-Genre: Essays & Travelogues
Publisher: Bison Books
Format: Paperback
Author: Jerry Ellis
Language: English
Street Date: March 1, 2002
TCIN: 90635082
UPC: 9780803267466
Item Number (DPCI): 247-07-3680
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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