drove more than 700 miles from their home in Santa Fe to St. Joseph, Missouri, with Grant’s two horses, Chicken Fry and Badger, in tow. The magazine contributor and lifelong horseman planned to travel the same route as the riders of the Pony Express, the storied mail trail through the West that lasted from April 3, 1860, to October 24, 1861. Over the next five months, Grant, out now from Little, Brown and Company.
