Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
BUFFALO BILLI was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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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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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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Don’t ever say you are sorry for “being caught in the moment”. Because, at that moment, that is EXACTLY where you wanted to be.
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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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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.
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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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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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