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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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Andrew Hayes
reviewed On The Trail Of The Pony Express on October 13, 2012
On The Trail Of The Pony Express
Found this looking for nonfiction on the Pony Express. Things I didn't like: not super-informational on the Pony Express, sometimes he seemed to be really reaching to tie his experiences into the history of the Trail, sometimes his poetic turn-of-phrase was a bit much for my style. Things I liked: his personality, his appreciation and respect for an enormous variety of people, the fact that a horrific start to his journey didn't stop him from seeing it through, I'm really interested in reading his book on The Trail of Tears, his respect for his heritage and the heritage of others, his gentleness with everyone. Not sure what I took from this, but I enjoyed it the same way I enjoy James Herriot.
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