I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
BUFFALO BILLExcitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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