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On the Trail of the Pony Express

by Jerry Ellis

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ISBN13: 9780803267466
ISBN10: 0803267460
Condition: Standard
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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. 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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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.
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Jerry Ellis, October 1, 2006 (view all comments by Jerry Ellis)
I am the author of On the Trail of the Pony Express and this is a formal THANK YOU to those who have read this book. For those who have not read it, may I say that it is a bit more than the title would suggest. In 1989, I, a Cherokee, became the first person in modern history to walk the 900 mile route of the Cherokee Trail of Tears. I made this walk to honor my ancestors and to get closer to my soul. The book, Walking the Trail, was nominated for a Pulitzer and National Book Award. I have since lectured in Africa, Europe, Asia and throughout the US about the Trail of Tears. I was not commissioned to write the book, but sold everything I owned to finance the two month life-changing trek. With its success, my publisher, Delacorte, offered to pay me to walk another trail that was close to my heart, my soul. I chose the Pony Express Trail because I, like the teenage riders on the Pony Express Trail, longed for adventure and risks, and I wanted to review my own youth as well as investiagte the history and the stories on those who live along that famous Trail today. I made the journey by foot, horse, covered wagon and canoe. It was a long hard journey, but the people I met, from the Rabbit Man of Kansas who lived in a hole in the ground to national rodeo champions I branded cattle with in Wyoming to the girl from Austria who won my heart, it proved to be a journey of self-discovery. I hope you will join me on that trek in On the Trail of the Pony Express. Feel free to contact me at tanager@tds.net.
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ISBN:
9780803267466
Afterword:
Ellis, Jerry
Author:
Ellis, Jerry
Publisher:
Bison Books
Location:
Lincoln
Subject:
General
Subject:
Description and travel
Subject:
West (u.s.)
Subject:
United States - West - General
Subject:
Essays & Travelogues
Subject:
West
Subject:
Pony Express National Historic Trail
Subject:
General History
Subject:
Travel
Subject:
West (U.S.) Description and travel.
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]).
Series:
American West
Series Volume:
no. 10
Publication Date:
March 2002
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
311
Dimensions:
8.04x5.46x.70 in. .78 lbs.
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