On the Pony Express Trail
TwoDot Books (Verlag)
978-1-4930-6869-2 (ISBN)
But while the Pony Express may be among the least significant developments of its era, it is the most iconic. One can’t really understand the Pony Express—what it stood for, what it accomplished, why it came about at all—without understanding the far more interesting historical milieu from which it grew: Three wars (Mexican, Utah, and Paiute); two gold rushes (California and Pike’s Peak); the overland emigration of hundreds of thousands to Oregon and California; the exodus of tens of thousands of Mormons to Utah.
On the Pony Express Trail: One Man's Bikepacking Journey to Discover History from a Different Kind of Saddle recounts the author’s experience bikepacking the Pony Express Trail over five weeks during June and July 2021, and uses the trail as a prism through which to survey a wide spectrum of mid-1800s historical events. Sixty-two-year-old Alumbaugh rode the Pony Express Bikepacking Route from St. Joseph, MO to Salt Lake City, UT, over 1,400 miles, mostly off-road, sometimes through very remote territory. The narrative follows his day-to-day experiences and impressions: the challenges, the sites he visited, the country he rode through, and interactions with the people he met.
Scott Alumbaugh is author of Will Kill for Food a novella set in Los Angeles’ Koreatown during the 1992 Rodney King Riots. His short fiction has been published in StoryQuarterly, Kestrel, Hunger Mountain Review (Runner up, 2017 Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize, (Matt Bell, judge), Black Fork Review, and Meat for Tea. Currently, Scott runs Sea Dog Designs, a web, print, and graphic design business he founded in 1999, and occasionally still teaches sailing in San Francisco Bay. Before starting Sea Dog Designs, Scott worked as an attorney, taught legal writing, was a sailing instructor, radio producer and host, theater manager, stage crew for a traveling Gilbert and Sullivan repertory company, ESL instructor in Japan, and a number of other jobs not worth mentioning. He lives with his partner, Lisa Ikemoto in Davis, California.
Erscheinungsdatum | 01.11.2021 |
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Verlagsort | Guilford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 153 x 224 mm |
Gewicht | 413 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Motor- / Rad- / Flugsport | |
Reiseführer ► Nord- / Mittelamerika ► USA | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4930-6869-5 / 1493068695 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4930-6869-2 / 9781493068692 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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