West Like Lightning

The #1 New York Times –bestselling coauthor of American Sniper details the history of the nineteenth-century express mail service that spanned the American west. On the eve of the Civil War, three American businessmen launched an audacious plan to create a financial empire by transforming communications across the hostile territory between the nation’s two coasts. In the process, they created one of the most enduring icons of the American West: the Pony Express. Daring young men with colorful na