The Pony Express Trai l : Yesterday and Today

摘要

The Pony Express Trail: Yesterday and Today is an informative, well-writtennnarrative of the Pony Express Trail’s contributions to communications between thenEastern and Western United States, to American politics, to emigration, and tonmining. The author, William E. Hill, states that his primary goal in writing this booknis to expose readers to “the route, the stations and the words of those who usednthe trail” (xvi). Indeed, readers learn many interesting stories about the trail,nincluding that it proved the practicality of a central route West and that it helpednkeep California in the Union during the Civil War.