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Orphans preferred : the twisted truth and lasting legend of the Pony Express / Christopher Corbett.
Record details
- ISBN: 0767906926
- ISBN: 9780767906920
- Physical Description: 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Broadway Books, 2003.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-263). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | How the story goes, or what do we know? -- In the days of the pony -- "Capital fellows" - Russell, Majors & Waddell -- "A wild, uninhabited expanse" -- "The greatest enterprise of modern times!!" -- Pyramid Lake -- "Orphans preferred" and "The worst imps of satan" -- Captain Sir Richard Burton -- The telegraph: "Our little friend the pony is to run no more" -- After the pony -- Mark Twain ..."To the territory ahead" -- Billy Cody's big adventure -- Buffalo Bill's wild west: "Wholly free from sham and insincerity" -- The colonel and his thrilling and truthful history -- Pony Bob Haslam: a true rider of the purple sage -- "Memory at the best is treacherous": the story of the story of the pony express and how it grew -- The borderland of fable -- Broncho Charlie Miller, "the last of the pony express riders" -- The girl who remembered Johnny Frey. |
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| Subject: | Pony express. Pony Express. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kirtland Community College Library | HE 6375 .P65 C67 2003 | 30534567 | General Collection | Available | - |
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Orphans Preferred : The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express
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Author Notes
Orphans Preferred : The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express
Christopher Corbett has been a working journalist for more than twenty-five years. A former news editor and reporter with the Associated Press, Corbett has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Boston Globe. The author of the novel Vactionland, he lives in Baltimore and teaches journalism at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County
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