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.
BUFFALO BILLExcitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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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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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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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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 cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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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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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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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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