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Hoofbeats of Danger Hoofbeats of Danger by Authors: Holly Hughes Released: 01 September, 1999 ISBN: 1562477587 Paperback Sales Rank: List price: Our price: Book > Hoofbeats of Danger > Customer Reviews: Average Customer Rating: Hoofbeats of Danger > Customer Review #1: Hoofbeats of Danger review Annies father Mr. Dawson owns a mail delivery company called the Pony Express and its in the 1800s when one of the horses gets hurt her father blames it all on one person but he is Annies friend and Annie knows her would never hurt a horse. How will she prove her friends innocents? Hoofbeats of Danger > Customer Review #2: Hoof Beats Of Danger Would you like to live in the west and work at red Buttes Pony Express Station? Well thats what happens to Annie as she goes through action, adventure and danger in HOOF BEATS OF DANGER by Holly Hughs. This book is good for ages 9 and up. This book may not have pictures but the author describes the scenes so well you dont need them. So find out what happens to Magpie Annies horse. I like this book a lot because it has a lot of action. The lesson or moral is love others. Hoofbeats of Danger > Customer Review #3: Not great not wonderful just OK 11 year old, Annie Dawson lives in a mining cabin in California. Her father works for Oakland Pony Express. Lately, her favorite horse Magpie has been acting strange. Her father says that he has no choice, but to shoot her. Annie begins to protest and is sure that someone is poisoning Magpie. It is up to her to help save Magpie before its too late. This book was a little bit boring and it strongly resembled other History Mysteries. The plot is always the same. Young girl who has a passion for something. Soon that passion is taken or trying to be taken away. The young girl tries to find out who is trying to take this away. In the end everything is perfect. After reading a few history mysteries, I am beginning to tire. The history mysteries that I suggest you read however are, Secrets on 26th street and The Smugglers Treasure. All in all, however this book was good enough to rank 4 stars.

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Task Process/Resources Evaluation Conclusion ... Teacher's Page The Pony Express A WebQuest Did you know mail was not always delivered by the United States Postal Service? Did you know mail was once delivered on horseback and to get a letter in ten days was amazing? Did you know that the answer to each of these questions is related to The Pony Express? The Pony Express is a part of our American history and by using the Internet we are able to explore and find answers to questions such as: Whose ideas was it to carry mail by horse? How long did The Pony Express run? and What type of terrain did the riders encounter? To begin an incredible exploration of this incredible endeavor click on the Task link above.

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1860 to 1861- The Pony Express Benicia was not on the regular Pony Express Route, but when the riders' missed their steamer connection to San Francisco from Sacramento, they took the alternative route through Solano County. This happened a total of 19 times in the 19 month history of the Pony Express. Benicia was a busy steamer port of call and ferry station which made it an ideal place for the riders to take the ferry to Martinez and then on to Oakland and then the ferry to San Francisco. There was a total of 190 stations and up to 300 station keepers and stock tenders. There were three kinds of stations; Home stations where riders were exchanged and accommodations for them to rest, Swing stations to change horses, and Way stations which were mail drops. 300 of the finest, fastest horses were selected since they would have to travel 10 miles in an hour, however some stations were as far apart as 25 or 30 miles. In the life of the Pony Express, over 200 riders participated, including Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill. One of the first riders was William F. Fisher who led a most interesting life after the Pony Express. Read all about the

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Ranked among the most remarkable feats to come out of the 1860 American West, the Pony Express was in service from April 1860 to November 1861. Its primary mission was to deliver mail and news between St. Joseph, Missouri, and San Francisco, California. Please visit the Bunkhouse where you will be able to sign our guest book, post messages on the Home Station Message Board, or send e-mail to me (Tom Crews). You will also find a brief introduction to the various areas that you can explore here at the Pony Express Home Station. Please visit the the Pony Express School House. This page has been created particularly for students and teachers who wish to use the resources of the Pony Express Home Station. people have visited this site from all over the United States and from forty-six foreign countries . Thank you for your support and kind comments.

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The Postal Role in U.S. Development Between the Revolutionary period and the first World War, United States postal officials applied themselves to improving transportation of the mails. From those early days to the present, the Postal Service has helped develop and subsidize every new mode of transportation in the United States. The postal role was a natural one; apart from postal employees themselves, transportation was the single most important element in mail delivery, literally, the legs of communication. Even when the general public was skeptical or fearful of a new means of transportation, postal officials experimented with inventions that offered potential for moving the mail faster, occasionally suffering embarrassment, ridicule, or even abuse in the process. As mail delivery evolved from foot to horseback, stagecoach, steamboat, railroad, automobile, and airplane, with intermediate and overlapping use of balloons, helicopters, and pneumatic tubes, mail contracts ensured the income necessary to build the great highways, rail lines, and airways that eventually spanned the continent. By the turn of the 19th century, the Post Office Department had purchased a number of stagecoaches for operation on the nation's better post roads a post road being any road on which the mail traveled and continued to encourage new designs to improve passenger comfort and carry mail more safely.

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Outrider Cookbooks Guidebooks Nature Writing ... OUT OF THE PAST History Lessons Pony Express In 1860, freight entrepreneur William H. Russell and his partners Alexander Majors and William Waddell created a cross-country mail service the Pony Express linking California with the Midwest. On April 3, 1860, the first Pony Express rider galloped out of St. Joseph, Missouri, with saddlebags full of mail. Ten days and thirty riders later, the westbound mail arrived in Sacramento, California. "The Pony Express was one of the most exciting and adventurous episodes of early American history," wrote Joseph J. DiCerto in his book, The Pony Express: Hoofbeats in the Wilderness . "To this day, the stories of the brave riders who carried the U.S. mail across the life-threatening wilderness remind us that the settlement of the West was made possible by people of great character and foresight, who were ready to make the supreme sacrifice for their country." The route of the Pony Express passed through the present-day states of Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada and California. It was supported by a system of 190 relay and home stations, each about 10 to 15 miles apart. Riders changed horses at relay stations; a new rider took over at home stations. Riders typically traveled 75 to 100 miles before being replaced by another. Eighty riders and 400 station keepers were hired by the Pony Express. The riders were equipped with the finest horses available, usually mustangs or Morgans. Buffalo Bill Cody is probably the best known of the Pony Express riders. Long before he became famous for his Wild West shows, Cody served as a substitute rider, then received a permanent route in Wyoming.

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Home Collection Reading Program The American West The Pony Express The Pony Express (Cornerstones of Freedom) What I Learned Section 1 Answer the Following Questions: 1. The Pony Express ran between which two cities? St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California. In the spring of 1860, the Pony Express hired 80 young men to carry the U.S. mail on horseback between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California. The route was 1,966 miles long, and the Pony Express promised to deliver the mail within 10 days. Each Pony Expressman rode a horse 15 miles and then switched horses. After riding 75 miles, the rider passed his mailbag (a mochila) to the next rider. Along the route, the Pony Express riders faced the winds on the prairies of Kansas and Nebraska, crossed the Sweetwater River in Wyoming, traversed the hot deserts of Utah and Nevada, and climbed the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. In the 1850's, before the Pony Express was established, it was a difficult journey to carry the mail between Salt Lake City, Utah, and California. Some men never completed the trip. Some might have been wounded or killed by unfriendly Native Americans, and some might have frozen to death in the deep snow. Others who completed the trip took up to fifty-three days to arrive in Salt Lake City.

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