Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
6.0
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
3195
Points per Word
0.000313
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.03125
Description
This illustrated book shares the history of the Pony Express from when it began to carry messages across the American West in April 1860 until the telegraph replaced it in October 1861.