Riders Of The Pony Express, Ralph Moody
Riders Of The Pony Express, Ralph Moody
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Riders Of The Pony Express

Author: Ralph Moody

Narrator: Cameron Beierle

Unabridged: 2 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/15/2011

Synopsis

Prior to the Civil War, the fastest mail between the West Coast and the East took almost thirty days by stagecoach along a southern route through Texas. Some Californians feared their state would not remain in the Union, separated so far from the free sta

About Ralph Moody

Ralph Owen Moody (1898–1982)
was an American author who wrote 17 novels and autobiographies largely about
the American West, though a few are set in New England. He was born in East
Rochester, New Hampshire in 1898 but moved to Colorado with his family when he
was eight in the hopes that a dry climate would improve his father Charles's
tuberculosis. Moody detailed his experiences in Colorado in the first book of
the Little Britches series, Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers. After
his father died, eleven-year-old Moody assumed the duties of the “man of
the house”. He and his sister Grace combined ingenuity with hard work in a
variety of odd jobs to help their mother provide for their large family. The
Moody clan returned to the East Coast sometime after Charles's death. After a period as livestock business owner in rural Kansas, Moody married and moved to Kansas City. Ralph and Edna Moody had three children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on February 06, 2015

This is not a complete & thorough history, but it is a fast moving, extremely interesting overview of the Pony Express - why it was formed & died. The bulk of the book concentrated on the first ride which allowed the author to go into more detail about the riders, conditions, & horses. That leaves p......more

Goodreads review by Elisabeth on April 08, 2022

This was such a great read aloud. We read just a chapter a day most days end it felt episodic and helped keep the riders stories separated. After the race was completed I went ahead and finished the book. With a kid curled at my side groaning as the descriptions of injuries were played out... it seem......more

Goodreads review by Naomi on February 06, 2022

My boys really got caught up in the drama of the California riders vs the plains riders. We also loved how much took place in Nevada and made us want to retrace the pony express route.......more

Goodreads review by Becca on April 22, 2025

This a short read but very entertaining and informative. Some people complained in their reviews about the amount of time that the writer spent on the initial race where the Pony Express did it’s first run, but I think that’s a great feature of this book. When I found this nonfiction book I was actual......more

Goodreads review by Frances N. Svoboda on April 30, 2020

Captured the courage and awe of the amazing days of the Pony Express If there's one thing a book should be when the subject is The Pony Express is thrilling and exciting. Ralph Moody has surely done that. I'm not sure how there could really be such documented detail about each trip, but there was pro......more

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