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| Prologue: How the Story Goes, or What do We Know? | 1 | |
| Pt. I | In the Days of the Pony | 11 |
| 1 | "Capital Fellows" - Russell, Majors & Waddell | 13 |
| 2 | "A Wild, Uninhabited Expanse" | 29 |
| 3 | "The Greatest Enterprise of Modern Times!!" | 45 |
| 4 | Pyramid Lake | 63 |
| 5 | "Orphans Preferred" and "The Worst Imps of Satan" | 81 |
| 6 | Captain Sir Richard Burton | 95 |
| 7 | The Telegraph: "Our Little Friend the Pony is to Run no More" | 115 |
| Pt. II | After the Pony | 129 |
| 8 | Mark Twain ... "To the Territory Ahead" | 131 |
| 9 | Billy Cody's Big Adventure | 147 |
| 10 | Buffalo Bill's Wild West: "Wholly Free from Sham and Insincerity" | 161 |
| 11 | The Colonel and his Thrilling and Truthful History | 173 |
| 12 | Pony Bob Haslam: A True Rider of the Purple Sage | 187 |
| 13 | "Memory at the Best is Treacherous": The Story of the Story of the Pony Express and How it Grew | 201 |
| 14 | The Borderland of Fable | 219 |
| 15 | Broncho Charlie Miller, "The Last of the Pony Express Riders" | 231 |
| Epilogue: The Girl who Remembered Johnny Frey | 247 | |
| Bibliography | 257 | |
| Acknowledgments | 265 | |
| Illustration Credits | 269 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Michael Augustine
reviewed Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express on January 02, 2019
Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express
This book is less about the Pony Express and more about the people who have spun so many Old West tall tales. I was hoping for more information about the Pony Express route but the author was more interested in writing about journalists and dime store novelists and those in between, such as Mark Twain.
I realize that getting definite facts about this era in American history is challenging. Yet Corbett doesn't seem to even care about that. He is more focused on the identity of the first Pony express rider than the route that was followed, the content of deliveries, or how this service impacted the country as a whole. There is nary a mention of the transcontinental railroad that was being built along the same Central Route.
There is good material here, but it was left half-baked. I was left wishing it was more.
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