Excerpt from The Pony Express Rider I wouldn't do it for a thousand. You are mighty nice to get men to throw away their lives for the sake of that old express, ain't you? I guess if some superintendents and directors of this division were bushwhacked you wouldn't be in any hurry to go out there. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.