Pony Dreams

Good morning and welcome to Sunday Blog Share. Today, we’re focusing on the Wild West. One of the first forays was by the Lewis and Clark Expedition that began on May 14, 1804 when they left St. Charles, which was part of the Louisiana Purchase, and canoed north to Fort Mandan in what is now North Dakota. These brave explorers finally reached the Pacific Ocean near the mouth of the Columbia River where they wintered at Fort Clattop near what is today Astoria, Oregon. This was only the beginning of the curiosity of what lay beyond the mighty Mississippi and harkened to those hearty souls willing to travel to what they thought was a promised land.
From April of 1860 through October of 1861, a new venture was created to deliver mail from St. Joseph Missouri to those living between there and on the Pacific Coast. The Pony Express riders went a thousand miles in ten days, connecting families who had long lost hope of ever hearing from their loved ones again. This venture’s short life was ended when telegraph lines were strung across the open prairie, connecting both sides of the country.
BlurbThe Pony Express brought mail across barren desert, endless prairies, and over steep mountains from April 3, 1860 to October 24, 1861. The telegraph has often taken the most blame for the Pony ceasing operations, although there were other reasons. One-hundred-forty-five years later, the internet made the telegraph obsolete. The romance of that time lives on, in the memories of those who heard the tales of this great venture…
Mina Weston Anders bursts into her home to tell her great-granny that the telegraph is no more on January 27, 2006. A story unfolds, as Granny talks about an ancestor that Mina resembles…
Abigail Grace Weston's starry-eyed dream is to become the first female Pony Express rider. Ma, Pa, and six overprotective brothers won't even let her near the corral to train mustangs for the mail venture, so she gives up her dream to sneak out and talk to the ponies, teaching them to accept her weight on their backs.
Then her life changes and all her dreams are dust. Or are they?

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Excerpt
She raced down the street, her sandy blonde hair streaming behind her. Mina Weston Anders had a very important message for one of the people she adored and couldn’t wait to pass it on.
At thirteen, she’d spent a lot of time studying the history of the Old West, and remembered a very important detail when their teacher told them that a thing people had used for one-hundred-forty-five years wouldn’t be around anymore.
“Hey, Granny!” Mina burst through the door of her northwest Georgia home. “Everybody’s talking about how there’s no more telegrams. Didn’t you tell me about them?”Granny looked up from where she was knitting a baby blanket for the little brother Mina would soon have to look after. She hated the thought of sharing her house with another brother. Didn’t she already have five? Being the oldest, she was the one stuck with all the awful chores.
“What are you saying, child?” Granny leaned forward in the chair. “Are you saying that something killed the telegraph, that infernal contraption that sends telegrams?”



About K.C. Sprayberry
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.                                                                                                  She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.

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