The Pony Express: A Primary Source History of the Race to Bring Mail to the American West cover

The Pony Express: A Primary Source History of the Race to Bring Mail to the American West

Author: Payment, Simone

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 6.5
Points 2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 10114
Points per Word 0.000198
Page Count 64
Points per Page 0.03125
Series Primary Sources in American History; Primary Source

Description

This book chronicles the eighteen-month history of the Pony Express which operated from April 1860 to October 1861 from St. Joseph, Missouri to San Francisco and describes the planning, hardships, and its ultimate end with the invention of the telegraph.