Riders of the Pony Express by Ralph Moody cookbook Inside this book

Inside this book

wordless spread looks down on the children enjoying their pond

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Riders of the Pony Express by Ralph Moody cookbook Inside this bookPrior to the Civil War, the fastest mail between the West Coast and the East took almost thirty days by stagecoach along a southern route through Texas. Some Californians feared their state would not remain in the Union, separated so far from the free states. Then businessman William Russell invested in a way to deliver mail between San Francisco and the farthest western railroad, in Saint Joseph, Missouri across two thousand miles of mountains,