A thrilling and truthful history of the pony express; or, Blazing the westward way, and other sketches and incidents of those stirring times . - Expressrider from the time the system wasinaugurated until it was the schedule time was tenmiles an hour, he generally averagedtwelve miles an hour. When hefirst went on the line he rode eachanimal twenty-five miles, but laterhe was given a fresh horse every fif-teen miles. Rand is now a railroadman living at Atchison, Moore, whose most remarkablerides and adventures are mentioned. Col. W. F. CodvAs he was in Union Pacific
A thrilling and truthful history of the pony express; or, Blazing the westward way, and other sketches and incidents of those stirring times . - Expressrider from the time the system wasinaugurated until it was the schedule time was tenmiles an hour, he generally averagedtwelve miles an hour. When hefirst went on the line he rode eachanimal twenty-five miles, but laterhe was given a fresh horse every fif-teen miles. Rand is now a railroadman living at Atchison, Moore, whose most remarkablerides and adventures are mentioned. Col. W. F. CodvAs he was in Union Pacific Building Days. elsewhere in these chronicles, wasone of the riders between St. Josephand Salt Lake, as was W. F. Cody,who is also spoken of at lengtli in aseparate chapter. Bill Cates was one of the ridersalong the Platte who had many excit-ing adventures with Indians. James W. Brink was one of theearly mail-carriers on the plains, andwas one of the first Pony Expressriders on the eastern half. He wasknown as Dock among the earlystage drivers, and was with Hickok—Wild Bill—in the fight at Rock CreekStation when five of the McCandlessband of outlaws were killed. Upon the day of this writing theauthor talked with Charles Cliff—brother of Gus ClifT—at St. Joseph,Mo., where he is engaged in mer-chandizing. Charles was only seven-teen when he was a Pony Expressrider, and he was one of the most 36 BLAZIXiJ THE WESTWARD WAY daring. He rode on alternate daysfrom St. Joseph to Seneca, and gen-eralh covered his eighty miles ineight hours. Three
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