The Story of the Pony Express: An Account of the Most Remarkable Mail Service Ever in Existence, and Its Place in HistoryMcClurg, 1913 - 175 pàgines |
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The Story of the Pony Express: An Account of the Most Remarkable Mail ... Glenn Danford Bradley Visualització completa - 1913 |
The Story of the Pony Express: An Account of the Most Remarkable Mail ... Glenn Danford Bradley Visualització de fragments - 1974 |
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Pàgina 73 - Every neck is stretched further, and every eye strained wider. Away across the endless dead level of the prairie a black speck appears against the sky, and it is plain that it moves. Well, I should think so! In a second or two it becomes a horse and rider, rising and falling, rising and falling— sweeping toward us nearer and nearer— growing more and more distinct, more and more sharply...
Pàgina 73 - So sudden is it all, and so like a flash of unreal fancy, that but for the flake of white foam left quivering and perishing on a mail-sack after the vision had flashed by and disappeared, we might have doubted whether we had seen any actual horse and man at all, maybe.
Pàgina 72 - We had had a consuming desire, from the beginning, to see a pony-rider, but somehow or other all that passed us and all that met us managed to streak by in the night, and so we heard only a whiz and a hail, and the swift phantom of the desert was gone before we could get our heads out of the windows. But now we were expecting one along every moment, and would see him in broad daylight. Presently the driver exclaims : "HERE HE COMES.
Pàgina 73 - ... nearer and still nearer, and the flutter of the hoofs comes faintly to the ear— another instant a whoop and a hurrah from our upper deck, a wave of the rider's hand, but no reply, and man and horse burst past our excited faces, and go winging away like a belated fragment of a storm!
Pàgina 49 - Take down your map and trace the footprints of our quadrupedantic animal : From St. Joseph, on the Missouri, to San Francisco, on the Golden Horn — two thousand miles — more than half the distance across our boundless continent ; through Kansas, through Nebraska, by Fort Kearney, along the Platte, by Fort Laramie, past the Buttes, over the Rocky Mountains, through the narrow passes and along the steep denies, Utah, Fort Bridger, Salt Lake City, he witches Brigham with his swift ponyship — through...
Pàgina 52 - I will not quarrel or fight with any other employee of the firm, and that in every respect I will conduct myself honestly, be faithful to my duties, and so direct all my acts as to win the confidence of my employers. So help me God.
Pàgina 50 - They are in California, leaping over its golden sands, treading its busy streets. The courser has unrolled to us the great American panorama...
Pàgina 29 - Letters for Oregon, Washington Territory, British Columbia, the Pacific Mexican ports, Russian possessions, Sandwich Islands, China, Japan, and India will be mailed in San Francisco. Special...
Pàgina 151 - Sec. 10. That the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby, authorized to contract for the conveyance of the entire letter mail from such point on the Mississippi river as the contractors may select to San Francisco...
Pàgina 72 - ... us managed to streak by in the night, and so we heard only a whiz and a hail, and the swift phantom of the desert was gone before we could get our heads out of the windows. But now we were expecting one along every moment, and would see him in broad daylight. Presently the driver exclaims: "Here he comes!