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 BILLAs a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.
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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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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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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
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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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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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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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