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ORPHANS PREFERRED: THE TWISTED TRUTH AND LASTING LEGEND OF THE PONY
de Corbett, Christopher
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- ISBN 10
- 0767906926
- ISBN 13
- 9780767906920
- Librería
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Columbia, Missouri, United States
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Sobre este artículo
2003. 2003 Corbett, Christopher ORPHANS PREFERRED: THE TWISTED TRUTH AND LASTING LEGEND OF THE PONY EXPRESS NY: Broadway Books, c2003 5th printing 270pp, illus b/w 8vo as new hardcover in d/j.
Sinopsis
"WANTED. YOUNG, SKINNY, WIRY FELLOWS. NOT OVER 18. MUST BE EXPERT RIDERS. WILLING TO RISK DEATH DAILY. ORPHANS PREFERRED." --California newspaper help-wanted ad, 1860 The Pony Express is one of the most celebrated and enduring chapters in the history of the United States, a story of the all-American traits of bravery, bravado, and entrepreneurial risk that are part of the very fabric of the Old West. No image of the American West in the mid-1800s is more familiar, more beloved, and more powerful than that of the lone rider galloping the mail across hostile Indian territory. No image is more revered. And none is less understood. Orphans Preferred is both a revisionist history of this magnificent and ill-fated adventure and an entertaining look at the often larger-than-life individuals who created and perpetuated the myth of "the Pony," as it is known along the Pony Express trail that runs from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California. The Pony Express is a story that exists in the annals of Americana where fact and fable collide, a story as heroic as the journey of Lewis and Clark, as complex and revealing as the legacy of Custer's Last Stand, and as muddled and freighted with yarns as Paul Revere's midnight ride. Orphans Preferred is a fresh and exuberant reexamination of this great American story.
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- Librería
- Columbia Books, Inc. ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 82545
- Título
- ORPHANS PREFERRED: THE TWISTED TRUTH AND LASTING LEGEND OF THE PONY
- Autor
- Corbett, Christopher
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0767906926
- ISBN 13
- 9780767906920
- Editorial
- Broadway
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2003
- Palabras clave
- PONY EXPRESS, AMERICANA, AMERICAN WEST
Términos de venta
Columbia Books, Inc. ABAA/ILAB
Books are returnable for a refund
if not as described.
Sobre el vendedor
Columbia Books, Inc. ABAA/ILAB
Miembro de Biblio desde 2006
Columbia, Missouri
Sobre Columbia Books, Inc. ABAA/ILAB
30,000 books in stock, with special emphasis on gardening,
art and textiles, poetry, children\'s and illustrated, Missouriana, antiquarian books.
Prints and maps are stocked as well.
Established 1977, member ABAA/ILAB
art and textiles, poetry, children\'s and illustrated, Missouriana, antiquarian books.
Prints and maps are stocked as well.
Established 1977, member ABAA/ILAB
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