Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.5
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
2976
Points per Word
0.000168
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.010417
Series
We the People
Description
This book traces the history of the Pony Express, a mail delivery service that operated only one and a half years, bringing mail to California along the northern-central route in 1860-61.