I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
BUFFALO BILLMajor North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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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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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.
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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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