Twelve-year-old Colton, son of a black mother and a white father, takes a job with the Pony Express in 1860 after his father abandons the family on their California-bound wagon train, and risks his life to deliver an important letter that may affect the growing conflict between the North and South.
- ISBN10 0689871384
- ISBN13 9780689871382
- Publish Date 1 September 2006 (first published 5 July 2005)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Margaret K. McElderry Books
- Edition Reprint ed.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 240
- Language English