In the fall of 1861, 18-year-old Pony Express rider Jedidiah Burns saddles up and leaves the Maverick Springs Station headed east toward the Butte Station twelve miles away. Though he does not know it, his mochila contains $20,000 in Comstock Silver Mine bearer bonds and $5000 in Pony Express stamps. Outlaw Jesse Nedlander and his gang, aware of Jed's cargo, ambush him at the Butte Mountains pass. With a bullet in his chest, Jed rides a mile before...