Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express - Hardcover

"A lively and conversational probe that lays out the real facts about this stirring slice of Americana."--"Albuquerque Journal
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"A rollicking tale of frontiersmen, showmen, hustlers, hucksters, and frauds."
--CNN
"It's the West in microcosm, and Corbett's breezy writing turns what we thought we knew into a compelling search for fact . . . It's a romantic story that won't die."
--"Denver Post
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A lively and conversational probe that lays out the real facts about this stirring slice of Americana. "Albuquerque Journal
"
A rollicking tale of frontiersmen, showmen, hustlers, hucksters, and frauds.
CNN
It s the West in microcosm, and Corbett s breezy writing turns what we thought we knew into a compelling search for fact . . . It s a romantic story that won t die.
"Denver Post
""

-A lively and conversational probe that lays out the real facts about this stirring slice of Americana.---Albuquerque Journal

-A rollicking tale of frontiersmen, showmen, hustlers, hucksters, and frauds.-
--CNN
-It's the West in microcosm, and Corbett's breezy writing turns what we thought we knew into a compelling search for fact . . . It's a romantic story that won't die.-
--Denver Post

"A lively and conversational probe that lays out the real facts about this stirring slice of Americana."--Albuquerque Journal

"A rollicking tale of frontiersmen, showmen, hustlers, hucksters, and frauds."
--CNN

Christopher Corbett has been a working journalist for more than twenty-five years.  A former news editor and reporter with the Associated Press, Corbett has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Boston Globe.  The author of the novel Vactionland, he lives in Baltimore and teaches journalism at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County.