Orphans preferred: the twisted truth and lasting legend of the Pony Express

How the story goes, or what do we know?

In the days of the pony

"Capital fellows" - Russell, Majors & Waddell

"A wild, uninhabited expanse"

"The greatest enterprise of modern times!!"

Pyramid Lake

"Orphans preferred" and "The worst imps of Satan"

Captain Sir Richard Burton

The telegraph: "Our little friend the pony is to run no more"

After the pony

Mark Twain ..."To the territory ahead"

Billy Cody's big adventure

Buffalo Bill's wild west: "Wholly free from sham and insincerity"

The colonel and his thrilling and truthful history

Pony Bob Haslam: a true rider of the purple sage

"Memory at the best is treacherous": the story of the story of the Pony Express and how it grew

The borderland of fable

Broncho Charlie Miller, "the last of the Pony Express riders"

The girl who remembered Johnny Frey.