A thrilling and truthful history of the pony express; or, Blazing the westward way, and other sketches and incidents of those stirring times . Aktemls \\.\kd was one associated with Artemus W a r d — Charles Farrar Browne — that has come to be a joke classic. Artemus wasat the zenithof his fame as ahumorous writerand lecturer atthe time of thestarting of thePony Express. Thomas Maguire,the most prominent promoter ofamusements in San Francisco at thattime, desired to employ Ward for aseries of entertainments in sent one of the expensive dis-patches from San Francisco to NewYork as
A thrilling and truthful history of the pony express; or, Blazing the westward way, and other sketches and incidents of those stirring times . Aktemls \\.\kd was one associated with Artemus W a r d — Charles Farrar Browne — that has come to be a joke classic. Artemus wasat the zenithof his fame as ahumorous writerand lecturer atthe time of thestarting of thePony Express. Thomas Maguire,the most prominent promoter ofamusements in San Francisco at thattime, desired to employ Ward for aseries of entertainments in sent one of the expensive dis-patches from San Francisco to NewYork asking Ward: What will you take for a hundrednights? Ward promptly responded, b) thesame means: Brandy and water. Artemus made the trip to Cali-fornia, going by steamer via Panama,and returning overland. The engage-ment was profitable and hilarious toArtemus and Maguire, and gave muchjoy to the genial humorists audienceseverywhere, en route. A.
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