Whatever happened to the Pony Express
(2010)
By:
Kay, Verla
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
E/811.54/KAY,V
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2010
DESCRIPTION
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780399244834, 0399244832
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
When the Pony Express came along, it cut the time it took to send a letter across the country in half. But only a year and a half later, with the arrival of transcontinental telegraph lines, it was put right out of business. Along with a family's story told through cross country letters, Verla Kay uses her trademark short, rhythmic verse to pack in loads of information about how the Pony Express came to be and why it didn't last
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