Historians of the American West have written dozens of books on trailblazers and overland trails in the past six decades, but Jim DeFelice’s West Like Lightning: The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony Express (William Morrow, $27.99) is the first comprehensive history of the legendary transcontinental experiment in mail delivery in sixty years.
DeFelice, the New York Times best-sell
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