An ongoing list of books about the Pony Express Trail, Bikepacking, etc. I’ll update the list as I get through each.
Ralph Moody, The Old Trails West (Promontory Press 1963) This book details the various trails used across the western U.S., beginning with the Spanish missions in the southwest, spreading up…
Dan Rottenberg, Death of a Gunfighter: The Quest for Jack Slade, the West's Most Elusive Legend (Westholme 2008) This book represents the author's quest to sort the fact from the…
Will Bagley, South Pass: Gateway to a Continent (University of Oklahoma Press, 2015) So far, this is the only book related to the Pony Express ride I regret buying. It's…
Anthony Godfrey, Historic Resource Study of the Pony Express National Historic Trail (United States Department of the Interior/National Park Service 1994) At a certain point in conducting research on the…
Raymond W. Settle and Mary Lund Settle, Empire on Wheels (Stanford University Press 1949) Empire on Wheels, along with a couple of other books written by the Settles, is one that…
Riders of the Pony Express, Ralph Moody (1958, republished 2004 University of Nebraska Press) This is a short book, and one I was disinclined to like after reading the first…
Robert M. Utley, A Life Wild and Perilous: Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific (Henry Holt 1997) I bought this book when it first came out. I've been interested…
Ralph Moody, Stagecoach West (Promontory Press 1967) I think I picked this book up at a Friends of the Library sale. Great book. Incredibly detailed. I've read it twice now. As…
William E. Hill, The Pony Express Trail: Yesterday and Today (Caxton Press, 2010) My partner, Lisa, gave me this book when I first mentioned I wanted to ride the Pony Express…