Tue, Jun 13
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Will Grant, The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000-mile Horseback Journey into the Old West
In his debut book, Outside contributor Will Grant rides the Pony Express Trail and finds a window to the West as he rides from Missouri to California to retrace the steps of the daring Pony Express riders––a job so dangerous that it was advertised as “orphans preferred.”
Date, Time & Location
Jun 13, 2023, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
This will be an in-store event.
Copies of The Last Ride of the Pony Express can be purchased online here or by calling the store to order (505) 988-4226
"Spellbinding" (Douglas Preston) and "completely fascinating" (Elizabeth Letts), cowboy and journalist Will Grant takes us on an epic and authentic horseback journey into the modern West on an adventure of a lifetime. The Last Ride of the Pony Express boldly illuminates both our mythic fascination with the Pony Express, and how its spirit continues to this day.
The Pony Express, which only lasted for 18 months, from April 3, 1860, to October 26, 1861, has an enormously outsized impact on our understanding of the American West. It was a fast-horse frontier mail service that spanned the American West— the high, dry, and undeniably lonesome part of North America. While in operation during the 1860s, it carried letter mail on a blistering…