Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
BUFFALO BILLMy restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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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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We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.
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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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Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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