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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 my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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Appearance Effort Myself
My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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Determination Escape Failure Myself Planning
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
The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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Break Death Man Sick
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
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
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
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
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
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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Feeling Fight Proud War
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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Bad Future Goodness Live Man Myself Weapon
Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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Heart Myself Place
Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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Excitement Myself Service
I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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Food Invitation Myself
Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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Death Fell Quick Stranger Weapon
The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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Feeling Nation Patriot Proud Respect

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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