On the Trail of the Pony Express

Responding to the enduring lure of the West, Jerry Ellis sets out-on foot-to follow the trail of the Pony Express, a short-lived, hell-for-leather mail delivery service that lasted barely a year but has marked itself in national memory ever since. Open to what he finds, including his own frailties, Ellis reports back with sympathy and humor on the strange variety of the modern West. Jerry Ellis is the author of Walking the Trail: One Man’s Journey Along the Cherokee Trail of Tears, also available in a Bison Books edition.