Annotated Bibliography

Primary Sources:

Headley, John. The Pony Express. Salt Lake City: Cultural Resources Series, 1979.

This book did not give me useful information. But the book was interesting.

It helped me understand The Pony Express by describing my how The Pony

Express started. But it had some pretty good pictures.

The Pony Express. 2 March 2005 <www.wissen-erleben.de/artikel_01_005.shtml>

This website helped me a lot. It gave me a lot of pictures to put on my website. It helped me understand The Pony Express by viewing pictures of the newspaper ad about hiring riders.

The Pony Express. 3 March 2005 <www.megavision.net/.../ western_collection.htm>

This website had pretty good pictures. It gave me one picture to put on my website. It helped me understand The Pony Express by viewing pictures of a horse to use as one of my background on my website. The picture I got from the website is the 1st one you see.

The Pony Express. 2 March 2005 <www.ponyexpress.org/museum_history.htm>

This website wasn’t very great. But at least it gave me some pictures to put on my website. It helped me understand The Pony Express by viewing pictures of the rider and a horse. So I can get a feeling of what the Pony Express Riders looked like.

The Pony Express. 3 March 2005 <www.knrarabians.com/photo.htm>

This website was pretty good. It gave me one picture to put on my website. It helped me understand The Pony Express by viewing pictures about the stamp of The Pony Express.

Visscher, William. A Thrilling and Truthful History of The Pony Express. Chicago: The Charles T. Powner Co., 1908.

This book was really interesting and it helped me a lot. It helped me on the “Starting” link. It helped me understand The Pony Express by describing to me how The Pony Express started.

Secondary Sources:

Adams, Samuel. The Pony Express. New York: Random House, Inc., 1950.

This book has a lot of information that I did not get from other books. This book only helped me on how the Pony Express became famous. It helped me understand it by describing it to me on how the Pony Express became famous. This book was quite interesting.

Faulk, Obie B. “Pony Express”. World Book Encyclopedia. Chicago:

World Book, Inc., 2001.

This book helped me on only two things. The two things are that this book helped me on how the stations were built and on how the people got the horses. It helped me understand The Pony Express by telling me how The Pony Express stations looked like and how they are apart from each other.

Giff, Patricia. The Pony Express. St. Joseph: The Charles T. Powner Co., 1974.

This book only gave me one sentence for my “Qualifications to be a Rider” link. It helped me understand The Pony Express by describing to me how The Pony Express accepts Pony Express riders.

Hardesty, Donald. The Pony Express. Reno: The Scrimshaw Press. 1979.

This book has numerous facts but it is not quite interesting. This book gave me information on how The Pony Express came to be. It helped me understand it by telling me how The Pony Express came to be.

Jackson, Turrentine. ”Pony Express”. The World Book Encyclopedia. Chicago: World Book Childcraft International, Inc., 1981.

This book helped me a little. I found some information on the “Starting” link. It also helped me on the beginning of my “Facts” link. It helped me on The Pony Express by telling me several facts on The Pony Express.

Jensen, Lee. The Pony Express. New York: Grosset & Dunlap Co., 1955.

This book did not help me a lot. But it had cool pictures about The Pony Express. It only helped me on the “Conclusion” link. It helped me understand The Pony Express by telling me how The Pony Express

ended.

Kroll, Steven. Pony Express. New York: Scholastic Inc., 1996.

This book helped my “Founders” link. It had helped me on the “The Service had Began” link too. But it helped me a little. The things that it helped me on were only the beginning of the “Starting” link. It helped me understand The Pony Express by telling me in detail on how the Pony Express came to be.

Mabey, Charles. The Pony Express. Salt Lake City: The Beverly Craftsmen, 1940.

This book was very interesting and it helped me on the most of my “Historical Context” link. It helped me understand The Pony Express by telling my information about Historical Context.

Markwyn, Dan. E-Mail Interview. 11 January 2005.

I found him in the Expert’s Guide from Sonoma State University, which Mr. Tobes gave me. At first I

e-mailed him, 2 days passed and he still did not reply. I thought that he was not going to reply me about The Pony Express. Then on the 3^rd day he replied. When I saw his e-mail I was so happy. He gave me a lot of information that is about The Pony Express. And best of all he gave me suggestions of what should go where on my website. He gave me a lot of information and ideas. He was really helpful. He helped me understand The Pony Express by answering my questions and telling me information about The Pony Express and giving me ideas to put on my website.

Moody, Ralph. Riders of the Pony Express. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958.

This book only helped me by the famous riders like Bob Haslam, and Broncho Charlie. It also helped me on some of the “Qualifications to be a Rider” link. It helped me understand The Pony Express by telling me how The Pony Express riders became famous.

Nathan, M., Boggs, W. The Pony Express. New York: The Collectors Club, 1962.

This book only gave me some information about the “Historical Context” link. It helped me understand The Pony Express by telling me how the people during that time looked like.

Pony Express. St. Joseph: Historic Resource Study, 1994.

This is book only helped me on one thing. It helped me on the “Modern Improvements” link. It also helped me on how the Pony Express sends during that time. It helped me understand it by describing how The Pony Express did things for the present.

Pony Express. 17 August. <http://www.ponyexpress.org/history.htm>.

This website helped me on a lot of things like information about all of the riders that have been riders and the stations. It also helped me on the “Facts” link on my website. This website helped me a lot. It helped me understand The Pony Express by telling me all about the Pony Express stations.

Pony Express. 16 December 2004. <http://www.xphomestation.com/>

This was a very useful website. It helped me on a lot of things that I didn’t know. It helped me on how The Pony Express riders were dressed. So I think that this is a good website. It helped me understand The Pony Express by telling me how the Pony Express riders were dressed.

Porter, Donald. Pony Express. New York: Bantam Books, 1983.

This book helped me a little in the “Historical Context” link like how the people were dressed. It helped me understand The Pony Express by describing me on the Historical Context during the time of The Pony Express.

Reinfeld, Fred. Pony Express. Lincoln: The Macmillan Company, 1966.

This is my favorite book. It helped me on most of the information. It helped me understand The Pony Express by describing me about how The Pony Express got beaten by the transcontinental telegraph.

Scarry, Richard. The Pony Express. New York: The Stack Pole Co., 1989.

This book had lots of useful things. I liked this book very much. It helped me on half of “The Service had Began” link. It helped me understand The Pony Express by telling my about how The Pony Express began

Settle, Raymond W., and Settle Mary Lund. Saddles and Spurs: The Pony Express Saga. Pennsylvania: The Stack Pole Company, 1955.

This book only helped me on one thing. It helped me on the “Facts” link like the source on the top. This also helped me on how the end of Russell’s career ended in my website. It helped me understand The Pony Express by describing me the facts about The Pony Express.

Smith, F. Waddell. The Story of the Pony Express. San Francisco: Hesperian House, 1960.

This book helped me on a little of the information. It only helped me on the “Conclusion” link, and the “End” link. This book was actually pretty interesting. It helped me understand The Pony Express by telling me how The Pony Express ended.

Visscher, L. William. The Pony Express. Chicago: The Charles T. Powner Co., 1946.

This book helped me on the information of how the Pony Express started. It also helped me on a lot of information like how the Pony Express made the deal with the companies and lots more. It helped me understand The Pony Express by telling me in detail on how The Pony Express started also like the source at the top.