America was exploding in the mid-1800s. From coast to coast, it was a time of great anxiety—the Civil War was looming, the Mexican War was waging, the Mormon War was simmering, gold was discovered in the hills of California and Colorado—and yet one of the most popular memories of those days is 80 skinny boys and their fast ponies. The Pony Express is an icon of the Old West. It epitomized the “can-do” spirit that is part of the American gene pool; it fed the hunger for heroic enduran
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