Inspired by the likes of Mark Twain, Sir Richard Burton, and Horace Greeley, a cowboy and journalist takes an epic and authentic horseback journey across the American West as he rides the Pony Express trail from Missouri to California.

Tells the history of the creation, operation, and demise of the mail service that linked the eastern and western United States from 1860 to 1861.

Discusses the eighteen month history, officially beginning April 3, 1860, of the mail delivery between Saint Joseph, Missouri, and Sacremento, California, known as the Pony Express.

Young colt Sky was born with the urge to run. Alongside his band, he moves across the range searching for fresh water and abundant grazing. But humans have begun to encroach on Sky's homelands. With fewer resources to share, Sky knows that he must leave if his family is to survive. He hopes that one day, he'll be strong and brave enough to return and challenge the stallion to lead the herd. Being a lone wild horse in a vast landscape is not easy,...

Examines the establishment of this innovative but short-lived mail delivery system and recounts anecdotes about it.

Set in 1855, as based on the award winning book "The White Indian Boy" by Elijah Nicholas Wilson, "Wind River" tells the true story of a young white settler who is accepted as part of the Shoshone Indiane tribe. - from cover