Pony express
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Warren Lafayette Ball papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8990
Scope and Contents
Contains typed copy of Warren Lafayette Ball's journal written in his home in Salt Lake City during the last year of his life (1878) and a copy of "The Travails of Warren Lafayette Ball: Pony Express Rider," (2015) a biography of Ball written by Ohio State University professor Dale W. Adams discussing Warren’s early life and work in establishing the Pony Express. Ball’s journal discusses events that occurred in that year including his service as the guard of Brigham Young's grave and his...
Dates:
1878-2015, bulk 1878
Memories of the pony express
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230315761]
Identifier: MSS SC 1762
Scope and Contents
Typescript of a biography of Ira Nebeker who helped break wild horses for the Pony express and became a good friend of Bill Cody (Buffalo Bill).
Dates:
circa 1950
A travelling ministry : the journals and letters of Thomas Owen King Jr., Latter-day Saint missionary, 1860-1864 / Dorothy Brewerton, Carolyn Gorwill and Leonard Reed
Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233247029]
Identifier: MSS 7677
Scope and Contents
Biography of Thomas Owen King, Jr., including letters, journal entries, and photographs. The compiled book documents his experiences as a Mormon missionary in England from 1860 to 1864, and his time as a pony express rider and rancher in Almo, Idaho.
Dates:
2010 June