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.
BUFFALO BILLMajor North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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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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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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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Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.
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We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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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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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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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