My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
BUFFALO BILLMajor North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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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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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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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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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 has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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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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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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