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The Pony Express Bible is a Protestant Bible that was distributed to the Pony Express riders in 1860 and 1861. == Description == The special edition leather-bound Bible was given to all the employees by the operators Russell, Majors and Waddell. Its dimensions are about 5.7 inches (14.5 cm) tall by 3.6 inches (9.1 cm) wide and a little over 2 inches thick. It has 1,278 double-columned pages. The copies of the Bible were specifically commissioned by Alexander Majors and contained full versions of both the Old and New Testaments. The firm had originally purchased these special copies for their company's wagon-train employees. The Bibles had gold lettering on the cover with a contemporary inscription and the wording, "Presented by Russell, Majors & Waddell. 1858". The source for the Old and New Testaments was an 1858 King James Version published by the American Bible Society in New York City. On commencing employment, a Pony Express rider was given one of the special edition Bibles. The rider had to swear to and sign the ''frontier pledge'' of loyalty, honesty, and sobriety, that was on the inside front cover of the Bible: It appears that the 183 riders employed from April 1860 to November 1861 did not take the pledge very seriously as, on the whole, they were considered dreadful, rough and unconventional. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pony Express Bible」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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