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"Bestselling author Stephanie Grace Whitson's latest historical novel features an adventurous young heroine who joins the Pony Express. Orphaned Annie Paxton and her brothers may have lost the only home they've ever known, but they're determined to make a better future in St. Joseph, Missouri. Annie dreams of a pretty house with window boxes, and having friends, and attending church every week. But then her brothers spot the ad for a new venture called...

Tells the story of the building, running, and closing of the Pony Express mail delivery system. Written in graphic-novel format.

When word of the Pony Express being formed reached Texas, Clay Roswell decided to get a job as an express rider. At a way station in Kansas, he was told his best chance for such a job was along the desert stretch in Nevada Territory, so that was where he headed. Along the trail, he caught up with two brothers, Jess and Hoke Pickard. That night, when Roswell was in his blankets, the Pickards jumped him and set out to club him to death....

Discusses the eighteen month history, officially beginning April 3, 1860, of the mail delivery between Saint Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California, known as the Pony Express.

In the spring of 1860 on the eve of a civil war that threatened to tear the country apart, two Americans conceived of an audacious plan for linking the nation's two coasts, thereby joining its present with its future. This book traces the development of the Pony Express and follows it from its start in St. Joseph, Missouri 1,500 miles west to Sacramento.

Fifteen year old Peter Lundy runs off and joins the pony express after his beloved horse is sold by his father.