Pony Express - The Great Gamble

Name/Title

Pony Express - The Great Gamble

Entry/Object ID

L1997.1.64

Description

Pony Express - The Great Gamble is a good book written at the time of the Pony Express centennial. His book gives a survey history of the Pony Express but adds new information since the Settle writings of the mid 1950s. Contains good photographs of trail sites. Unfortunately, no footnotes. Bibliography of other Pony Express books is good. Appendix lists stations and riders and reprints some of the Pony Express contracts. Index to book. 159/Hardbound/Maps/Photographs

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Pony express

Search Terms

Pony Express, Pony Express Trail, Survey History, Russell, Majors & Waddell

Book Details

Author

Bloss, Roy

Place Published

City

Berkeley

State/Province

California

Date Published

1959

Call No.

PonyExpress BL

LCCN

59-15077

Notes

Copy No.: 1

Condition

Overall Condition

Good