An Edison picture purporting to represent the trials of a pony express rider. A love story is woven into it which becomes somewhat mixed, and it is difficult to determine which is the girl's accepted lover some of the time. The main feature is that the express rider is overtaken by Indians and his horse is wounded. The rejected lover is shot by the Indians, but manages to get to the house where the express rider's sweetheart lives and informs her of her lover's danger. She immediately rallies the cowboys and they drive the Indians away or kill them. The picture has plenty of life and action, but does not seem to represent very faithfully the life of a pony express rider. Conditions vary, of course, in different parts of the country where these riders have operated, but as a whole the appearance was the same, and this did not seem quite convincing. The quality of the film is good. The riding is good, but there is something about it which makes it appear patched up. Perhaps this criticism is unjust and undoubtedly it would please an average audience because there is a good deal of life in it, but it is so good that one wishes that it might have been made just a little better. - The Moving Picture World, May 22, 1909
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