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Books about the Pony Express *

Please note that not all books listed are still in print, but may be available at your local library. Listed by last name of the author, then book title.

* If you know of a book on the Pony Express that you don’t see listed, please send book information to NationalPonyExpress@gmail.com

• Adams, Samuel Hopkins. The Pony Express. Spencer Press, Inc., Chicago, 1950. Great book on the history of the Pony Express.
• Adams, Samuel Hopkins. El Pony Express. Editorial Intercontinental, S. A., Mexico, 1957. This is a Spanish language version of Adams’ book listed above.
• Allen, Merritt Parmelee. Joaquin Miller, Frontier Poet. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1932.
• Anderson, A. M., and Adolph Regli. Alec Majors. Wheeler Publishing Company, Chicago, 1953. The story of Alexander Majors and the Old West he knew and loved.
• Anderson, Peter. The Pony Express. Children’s Press, 1996. Examines the establishment of this innovative but short-lived mail delivery system and recounts anecdotes about it. Very well illustrated.
• Arnold, Oren. Marvel
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  Archives West Finding Aid

  Sub-series 1. Articles in numerical/chronological order

  1942-1984BoxFolder51

  (98) Why All That Shooting? Competitive Shooting

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  (99) Hunters on Wheels

  194253

  (107) Hits and Misses - Outlaw Curly Bill

  undated54

  (109) Handguns and Pistols

  undated55

  (115) Shooting Sons Marksmanship for Children

  undated56

  (117) Ski Rodeo, New Skiing in New Mexico

  undated57

  (118) The Wild Bill Hickok Myth

  194958

  (119) Old Guns - New Targets War Rifles for Hunting

  undated59

  (120) Is It a Pistol Or a Pup? War Souvenir Pistols

  undated510

  (121) Wild Bill Hickok

  undated511

  (123) Little Sure Shot, Annie Oakley

  undated512

  (131) High, Low and Game, Gun Sights

  1948513

  (132) Albuquerque

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  (133) New Mexico, The Land of Enchantment

  1948515

  (134) Dan’l Boone Myths American Sharpshooter Myths

  1948516

  (135) Sons of Guns, Gun Industry and Recreation

  1949517

  (136) That New Remington, Remington Mo

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  American frontier

  Undeveloped territory of the United States, c. 1607–1912

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  The American frontier, also known as the Old West, and popularly known as the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last few contiguous western territories as states in 1912. This era of massive migration and settlement was particularly encouraged by President Thomas Jefferson following the Louisiana Purchase, giving rise to the expansionist attitude known as "manifest destiny" and historians' "Frontier Thesis". The legends, historical events and folklore of the American frontier, known as the frontier myth, have embedded themselves into United States culture so much so that the Old West, and the Western genre of media specifi