For about eighteen months on the eve of the Civil War, relays of young riders carried mail between Missouri and California. Bradley explains why the service was founded, how Russell, Majors and Waddell organised its stations and horses, the first run and its triumph, the dispatches it rushed to Washington in 1861, and the telegraph that ended it.
A short, readable history of one of the most romantic ventures of the American frontier. Download the free EPUB.