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| Prologue How the Story Goes, or What Do We Know? |
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Part I IN THE DAYS OF THE PONY |
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``Capital Fellows''---Russell, Majors & Waddell |
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13 | (16) |
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``A Wild, Uninhabited Expanse'' |
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29 | (16) |
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``The Greatest Enterprise of Modern Times!!'' |
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45 | (18) |
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63 | (18) |
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``Orphans Preferred'' and ``The Worst Imps of Satan'' |
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81 | (14) |
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Captain Sir Richard Burton |
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95 | (20) |
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The Telegraph: ``Our Little Friend The Pony Is to Run No More'' |
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115 | (14) |
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129 | (118) |
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Mark Twain . . . ``To The Territory Ahead'' |
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131 | (16) |
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Billy Cody's Big Adventure |
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147 | (14) |
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Buffalo Bill's Wild West: ``Wholly Free From Sham and Insincerity'' |
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161 | (12) |
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The Colonel and His Thrilling and Truthful History |
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173 | (14) |
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Pony Bob Haslam: A True Rider of the Purple Sage |
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187 | (14) |
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``Memory at the Best is Treacherous'': The Story of the Story of the Pony Express and How it Grew |
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201 | (18) |
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219 | (12) |
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Broncho Charlie Miller, ``The Last of the Pony Express Riders'' |
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231 | (16) |
| Epilogue The Girl Who Remembered Johnny Frey |
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247 | (10) |
| Bibliography |
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257 | (8) |
| Acknowledgments |
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265 | (4) |
| Illustration Credits |
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