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Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider’s route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles – a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.

Buffalo Bill

I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.
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Correct Face Government Ideas Life Myself People Return See Thinking
The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days – an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
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Better Day Expression Ourselves Time
Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.
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Eat Fire Myself Water
You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one’s friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle.
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Fire Friendship Live Opportunity Peace Way Yourself
As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
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Goodness Guide Himself Myself
After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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Feeling Myself River Safety
Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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Excitement Myself Service
With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
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Body Father Friendship Help Himself Home Mortal Myself Ride Wound
I could never resist the call of the trail.
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Call Myself Resistance
The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.
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Choice Country Home Important Myself Practice Presentation Summer
The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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Freedom Man Myself Slave
Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider’s route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles – a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.
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Beginning Break Build Expectation Goodness Oneself Place
Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.
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Actor Combination Myself Organization Road Security
General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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Character Personal Student
I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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Beginning Myself Thinking Time
My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.
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Animal Greatness Kill Myself Ride Shoot

Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider’s route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles – a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.

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Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider’s route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles – a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.

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