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    Pony Express
    Pony Express
    Pony Express
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    Pony Express

    By Harriet Cade

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    When fifteen-year-old Jack Taylor is offered a job with the newly formed Pony Express Company, it looks as though he will be able to rescue his family from the financial problems which are troubling them. However, he injures his ankle, and it is likely his job will fall through. His twin sister, Beth, decides to ride in his place; this is the story of the only girl to ever ride for the Pony Express.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert Hale
    Release dateJun 30, 2016
    ISBN9780719821196
    Pony Express
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    Harriet Cade

    Simon Webb, who lives on the outskirts of London, is the author of more than thirty westerns, published under both his own name and also a number of pseudonyms; for example Brent Larssen, Harriet Cade and Fenton Sadler. In addition to westerns, he has written many non-fiction books, chiefly on the subjects of social history and education.

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      n the YA novel, Pony Express by Harriet Cade, fifteen year old Beth Taylor disguises herself as a boy and rides for the Pony Express in order to save her twin brother’s job when he injures his ankle. It is 1860 and the fifty dollars a month is important to this fatherless family.Setting out from St. Joseph in the morning and fully expecting to be home again that evening, Beth had no idea that she was running into a full scale Indian attack. The Comanches had come north and her first inkling was when she got to her final station and found it burnt to the ground. The one badly injured survivor begged her to ride north to a nearby town to warn them and to continue on to the closest army fort to rouse the Calvary. She spends the next few days riding to spread the warning and trying to avoid the Indians.Having just read a non-fiction book about the Pony Express I was curious to see if this author stuck to the facts or was more inspired by the myth of the Express. The story was exciting but from my research, the Comanche did not raid into Kansas in the spring of 1860. There were Indian troubles at this time, but from the Cheyenne and Kiowa. The bulk of the Indian problems in Kansas occurred after the Civil War, some five years after this book takes place. The author did however, get most of the details regarding the Pony Express and their methods correct. Overall, The Pony Express was a light, fun read about a girl who lived out her dreams and had an enormous adventure.

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