Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
BUFFALO BILLI had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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 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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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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 Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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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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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
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