I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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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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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
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The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.
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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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