Dangerous Ride Across Humboldt Flats (Adventures on the American Frontier Book 2)

Orphan Gabriel (Gabe) Young barely survives in the unforgiving West by working for meals at mining camps and frontier towns. Then in 1860 he gets lost in Nevada Territory. He meets a girl who takes him to her parents at a Pony Express station. There he finds a whole lot more than shelter and a meal. He can hardly believe the family's tender care for him. When he gets a chance to help them, he agrees to ride several legs of the dangerous Pony Express trail with the news of Abraham Lincoln's election and the impending Civil War.