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Michelle Wildgen: IMG A Few Initial and Not-Comprehensive Meditations on Group Novels

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I am a sucker for a book about a group. What reminded me of this was Joanna Smith Rakoff's A Fortunate Age, her homage to Mary McCarthy's endlessly re-readable... Continue »
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Pony Express

by Fred Reinfeld

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ISBN13: 9780803257863
ISBN10: 0803257864
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This authentic account of the establishment of the first rapid-communications system between East and West is packed with adventure and real-life heroes-Bob Haslam, who rode unharmed through an ambush of thirty Paiute Indians; Jack Keetley, Warren Upson, and the most famous rider of all, Buffalo Bill Cody. It is a rousing chronicle of the Old West, when danger and excitement marked each galloping trip across the two thousand miles of mountains, plains, and deserts that separated St. Joseph and San Francisco.

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This authentic account of the establishment of the first rapid communications system between East and West is packed with adventure and real-life heroes--Bob Haslam, who rode unharmed through an ambush of thirty Paiute Indians.
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ISBN:
9780803257863
Author:
Reinfeld, Fred
Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press
Location:
Lincoln
Subject:
General
Subject:
Communication
Subject:
History
Subject:
United States - General
Subject:
Pony express
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Publication Date:
December 1973
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
136
Dimensions:
797x531x37 33
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