Twelve Travelers Twenty Horses Author:Harriette Gillem Robinet On the eve of the 1860 presidential election, thirteen-year-old Jacob Israel Christmas stands for sale at the third slave aution of his life. If Abraham Lincoln is elected, there's a chance he'll taste freedom; if Stephen Douglas wins instead, slavery could spread west. Jacob can't believe his luck when rich Mr. Higgenboom decides to buy him, hi... more »s mother, and all his friends. But when Jacob begins to suspect his new master of an outrageous plot to stop the Pony Express riders from reaching California with the election news, he knows he must foil the plan!« less